The UK’s Better Buildings Partnership has released an updated version of its Green Lease Toolkit, which includes a sample Memorandum of Understanding for environmental lease objectives, and is an important addition to the growing compendium of available green leasing resources.
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IMT & RILA’s Industry Primer Takes Aim At Defining Retail Green Leasing
A new green leasing tool from the Institute for Market Transformation and the Retail Industry Leaders Association has the ambitious goal of beginning to disseminate green leasing practices within the retail industry, which has generally lagged behind office markets in implementing sustainability within leasing documents.
In Helsinki, Finnish Real Estate Concern Closes Its First Green Lease
By Stephen Del Percio on June 11, 2013 in Europe, Green Leases, Leases, Market Analysis, Retail, Transactions
Some persisting trends in commercial leasing abroad could suggest how future green leasing markets in North America might look if data-driven regulatory activity increases at the state and local levels.
In the United Kingdom, Major Retailer Unveils “Transformative” Green Lease Policy
In a move that it describes as “transformative,” one of the UK’s largest retailers has announced a major initiative that will incorporate green lease obligations into all of its new and existing shopping center and retail park leases.
REI Preserving Puck Building History at First NYC Retail Store in SoHo
By Stephen Del Percio on December 5, 2011 in Historic Preservation, Manhattan, New York City, Retail, SoHo
REI’s new 35,000-square-foot SoHo store is the Washington-based outdoor clothing chain’s first in New York City and one of the most interesting and accessible green building projects that you’ll come across anywhere in Manhattan- even if you’re not the hiking, biking, or climbing type.
Retro Broadway Lighting at High-Tech Flagship Starbucks in Times Square Powered by LEDs
By Stephen Del Percio on November 30, 2011 in Intellectual Property & Technology, LEED-CI, Manhattan, New York City, Retail, Times Square
Over 125 energy-efficient LED lamps illuminate Starbucks’ new NYC flagship in Times Square in order to evoke the nostalgia of an old Broadway theater stage set.
TD Bank Looks To Score With Carbon Neutral Proclamation
Local banks still exist, but are increasingly the sort of thing grandparents talk about walking past on their way uphill to school (and then again, on the uphill home) back in the old days. The tellers knew your name, the locations were convenient, there were no grandiose jerkweeds in a back room tranching and re-tranching your mortgage, then making trillions of dollars worth of bets on whether or not you’d pay it back, and then going out for steak and yelling profanities at each other. Commerce Bank was one such nice-guy local bank — except for the unfeasible dual-uphill-location thing — before it was purchased by Canadian banking giant TD Banknorth back in 2007. As so often happens with your bigger banks, TD Bank went about alienating New Jerseyans (admittedly, not difficult) by acting like a Canadian Banking Giant. It will take more than some solar-enhanced drive-throughs and a bunch of carbon offsets to win back Jersey — we’re like that — but TD Bank’s recent announcement that it plans to go carbon neutral at least is a sign that the erstwhile Canadian Banking Giant is dedicated to being a Responsible Canadian Banking Giant.
New Jersey’s First LEED-Certified Restaurant to Land in Ridgewood
The Garden State’s first LEED-certified restaurant is on track to become a pizzeria in suburban Ridgewood.
Big Box Stores Jump on the Green Bandwagon
Big box retailers are seeing increased demand for green building products and materials.
2008 Vintage of Microturbines Now Operating on Lafayette Street
By Stephen Del Percio on March 28, 2008 in Greenwich Village, Legislation, Manhattan, New York City, Retail
At Astor Wines and Spirits, two microturbines are providing enough electricity to heat, cool, and power the store and its upstairs cooking school and gallery space.
