The Empire State Building’s green retrofit was the “key thing” in convincing LinkedIn executives to sign a 7-year, 31,000-square-foot lease for the iconic skyscrapers entire 25th floor.
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Taking The LEED: Empire State Building Gets Certified After All
By David Roth on April 25, 2011 in Empire State Building, LEED Commentary, LEED-EB, Manhattan, Market Analysis, Midtown, New York City
The Empire State Building doesn’t need a LEED plaque to be recognized. But, in an unexpected reversal, the newly retrofitted icon has decided to pursue one anyway.
Sounds Good: Inside Carnegie Hall’s LEED Silver Overhaul
By David Roth on March 23, 2011 in Green Roofs, Historic Preservation, LEED-EB, Manhattan, Midtown, New York City
How does Carnegie Hall plan to reach LEED Silver status? Practice, practice, practice. (Well, that and an ambitious green retrofit)
How’s The Fit? Get To Know Deutsche Bank’s Plan To Study he Efficiency (and Monetary) Value of Green Retrofits
Not all green retrofits get as much attention as The Empire State Building’s. A new study dedicated to figuring out the green (and economic) worth of retrofits looks to change that.
The Big (And Fast!) Payback: Observer on The Sped-Up Timeline for Green Savings
To bust out of niche-practice purgatory, green building practices need to deliver savings, quickly. All of which makes it more encouraging that green building practices are increasingly delivering savings. And quickly.
Homes Sweet Homes: NYSERDA Gets Props From EPA For Energy Star Homes Program
Hot acronym-on-acronym action: NYSERDA’s Energy Star Homes green retrofit program receives the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2010 Leadership in Housing Award.
Finding the Green to Go Green: Is This Green Leasing’s Moment?
It’s hardly controversial, given what the “g” in gbNYC stands for, to advocate the idea that green retrofits are a good idea for buildings in New York and elsewhere. But as the consensus grows that this is, in fact, what’s going to happen — at least in the sense that a greener built environment is so clearly wise, responsible and cost-effective that it kind of has to happen — let’s take a break from popping Cristal over the coming retrofit boom and fretting over the imperfections of our current capacities. During that break, we’d encourage you to take a walk (but bring mittens, it’s cold) and maybe give some thought to just how we’re going to pay for all those awesome retrofits that are surely coming down the pike. While we all broadly agree on what should happen when it comes to retrofits, it will be easier to believe that all those good things will happen when we have some idea how they will happen. Which brings us to… green leasing?
The Halfway Point: Venture Capital Study Predicts Huge Green Retrofit Surge
Anyone predicting the emergence of a large and lucrative market at our nation’s present economic ebb is going to get attention, but Greg Kats deserves more attention than, say, Larry Kudlow or the clowns who wrote Dow Eleventy Zillion. A former member of Bill Clinton’s Department of Energy, Kats is now the senior director of the New York-based venture capital firm Good Energies Inc., and he recently issued the results of a two-year, independently-financed report in a book called Greening Our Built World. To call Kats’ conclusions bullish is, frankly, kind of an insult to bulls. But while Kats’ projection that 50 percent of the non-residential building stock in the U.S. will qualify as “green” by 2015 is dramatic — especially since the current figure is 15 percent — it’s not exactly James Glassman and Kevin Hassett predicting that the Dow will hit infinity by 2002 as long as we repeal the Glass-Steagall Act. That is to say, Kats actually makes it seem possible.
City Unveils Earth Day Plan for Green Retrofits & Benchmarking
Introduced amidst some opposition, the mayor’s four-pronged plan developed by his Sustainability Advisory Board would soon require New York City building owners to implement a variety of energy efficiency upgrades to existing buildings.
City Unveils Pilot Program to Green Foreclosed Homes
The Enterprise Green Communities criteria will serve as the basis of the pilot, which is part of Mayor Bloomberg’s New Housing Marketplace Plan, an initiative aiming to create sufficient affordable housing for 500,000 New Yorkers.
