gbNYC selects green news items of note that were reported across the New York City area during the week of July 6, 2008, including alterations to the Times Tower in light of yet another climber, with which Renzo Piano is “okay,” the potential for an increased number of local, European-style bike share programs, groundbreaking at Serviam Gardens in the Bronx, and a push towards green building codes in Southampton on Long Island.
July 13th, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "Serviam Gardens"
Serviam Gardens: Affordable Green Living for Bronx Seniors
Serviam Gardens will be a 240-unit housing development for low- to middle-income senior citizens when it opens in the last quarter of 2009. Developed by Bronx-based affordable housing developer Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation, the $66 million project is set to break ground tomorrow and will rise in a vacant lot behind Mount Saint Ursula’s convent and girls’ high school in Bedford Park in the Bronx. OCV Architects designed the two-tower project, which will incorporate a number of unspecified green design features pursuant to Enterprise Green Communities Criteria.
July 1st, 2008 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued