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243 East 82nd Street: Oyster Capital Aims to Certify Gotham’s First LEED for Homes Townhouse

We talk a lot here about how critical it is – both from a legal perspective and to ensure the ultimate delivery of a high-performance building – for a green building project team to coordinate its efforts as early as possible in the construction process. Teddy Schiff, president of New York City-based Oyster Capital Group, clearly grasps the unique characteristics of sustainable design and spent nearly six months making sure his project team at 243 East 82nd Street understood exactly what would be required of it in order to execute architect Daniel Frisch’s design for what should become Gotham’s first single-family townhouse certified under LEED-H.

Stephen Del Percio | January 15th, 2009 | Continued

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Volant Trading Inks Lease for Last Available Prebuilt Space at 7 WTC

Larry Silverstein has leased the last available prebuilt space at his 7 World Trade Center. As you’ll recall, the tower was the first commercial office building in New York City to earn LEED Gold certification. Equity and derivatives traders Volant Trading, which was formerly located at 99 Wall Street, plans to move into building in March. The firm is quadrupling its existing space by taking 7800 square feet at 7 WTC, or approximately one fifth of the tower’s 33rd floor. Volant signed a seven-year deal at $75 per square foot. CB Richard Ellis’s Rob Wizenberg, who represented Volant in the negotiations, noted that the firm “wanted absolutely top-quality space. The layout was perfect and they love being downtown.”

Stephen Del Percio | January 14th, 2009 | Continued

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Princeton Engineers Craft Green Design for Historic Factory in Hamilton, New Jersey

Isles, Inc. is a Trenton-based non-profit organization that develops green homes and businesses, provides training for green collar jobs, and administers various environmental clean up projects across the state of New Jersey. Isles was founded by Princeton students back in 1981 and has since expanded to over 60 employees across 5 locations in the Garden State. A current group of Princeton civil and environmental engineering students are providing recommendations to Isles on ways it can green its future headquarters, an abandoned factory in Hamilton dating from 1895.

Stephen Del Percio | January 13th, 2009 | Continued

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New Law in California Links Transportation Funding to Smart Growth*

Signed into law September 30 by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, California’s hotly debated Climate Change Smart Growth Bill, or SB375, which links land use and transportation planning with climate change, will change the way California communities are built and help provide residents a pedestrian-friendly lifestyle near jobs, shopping and entertainment. This new law could be a model for other states as they look at how climate change should impact thinking on new development.

January 12th, 2009 | Barry Rosengrant | 0 comments | Continued
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ML: BNIM Architects’ Omega Center for Sustainable Living Seeks Platinum, Living Building Challenge Certification in Rhinebeck

The Rhinebeck, New York-based Omega Institute for Holistic Studies announced last week that it has broken ground on its Omega Center for Sustainable Living. The OCSL is aiming for a LEED Platinum rating and was designed by Kansas City-based BNIM Architects, the firm responsible for the new master plan for Greensburg, Kansas.

January 12th, 2009 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
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Green Industrial Leases, Images of Lost Gotham Green Towers, MTA’s Green Metrocard Program, & Shared Green Office Space for BK

gbNYC selects green news items of note that have been reported across the New York City area during this first week of 2009, including green industrial leases in North Jersey for Pantheon Properties, renderings at Wired New York of some of Gotham’s unbuilt skyscrapers, many of which include green design features, a green MetroCard plan unveiled by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and shared green office space on the way from the Brooklyn Creative League in Park Slope.

January 10th, 2009 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
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Meltzer/Mandl Executes Green Industrial Conversion in Williamsburg

Although it’s unclear when (and if, given the current state of the real estate market here in New York City) construction will proceed, Meltzer/Mandl Architects recently completed the design for a 50,800-square-foot conversion of a 5-story, brick and timber industrial building at 487 Keap Street in Williamsburg into 51 residential apartment units. Regardless of whether the project ultimately gets built, Meltzer/Mandl’s design is notable for a number of reasons. The project does not appear to be seeking a LEED rating, but a variety of green design features were specified, including low-E glass, low-VOC materials, and Energy Star appliances in each unit. The firm also had to incorporate a significant number of interior columns - vestiges of the existing building’s industrial past - into its design.

January 9th, 2009 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
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Audubon Society Cops Highest LEED-CI Platinum Rating Ever at 225 Varick Street

The National Audubon Society’s new office space on the seventh floor of 225 Varick Street has earned the highest point total ever for a Platinum LEED for Commercial Interiors certification. USGBC formally conferred the award late last month, and the project also received honors as one of New York Construction magazine’s Best of 2008 projects. We noted the project last February right after the Audubon Society moved into its new space; you may recall that during the 1990s it had renovated its former headquarters at 700 Broadway using similar sustainable design features. Designed by FXFOWLE and built by Citadel Construction, the 25,000-square-foot office was once home to a printing company, and a major design goal was to retain the space’s loft-like features.

January 8th, 2009 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
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GreenWorks on Grove Seeks LEED-CS Silver in Montclair, New Jersey

An interesting adaptive reuse project is underway over in Montclair, New Jersey. Designed by Sionas Architecture and built by Jack Finn & Company for owner Cadbury Properties, GreenWorks on Grove will convert the site of a former gas station into a three-unit speculative commercial retail building at 100 Grove Street in suburban Montclair. The project is applying for a Silver rating under USGBC’s LEED for Core and Shell system; tenants who choose to build their spaces out under LEED for Commercial Interiors will find each outfitted with individual submeters.

January 6th, 2009 | Stephen Del Percio | 1 comment | Continued
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Cutsogeorge Tooman & Allen Architects & Dermot Seek LEED Gold for Lower Eastside Girls Club Community Center

It’s always great to see sustainable design intersect with projects that improve the fabric of our communities. Accordingly, we were happy to see that, in cooperation with its development partner the Dermot Company, the Lower Eastside Girls Club filed plans with the Department of Buildings back in mid-December for a 12-story, 90,000-square-foot mixed-use building that will rise at the corner of Avenue D and East Seventh and Eighth Streets. Designed by Cutsogeorge Tooman & Allen Architects, the project will seek a LEED Gold rating from USGBC and include a number of green design features ranging from building-integrated photovoltaics to both extensive and intensive green roofs and terraces.

January 5th, 2009 | Stephen Del Percio | 0 comments | Continued
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