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Thoreau Center for Sustainability New York, 55 Exchange Place
The Thoreau Center for Sustainability New York opened at the end of September and is now home to twelve non-profit organizations and programs. The Center is located at 55 Exchange Place, across the...
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Green Rental Apartments by Meltzer/Mandl Rising at 40 Gold Street
The Gold Street Apartments is a 62,000-square-foot rental development currently under construction at 40 Gold Street in lower Manhattan. The 14-story project broke ground back in June and was designed...
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Energy Star Winner 14 Wall Signs 20 Percent of all 4th Quarter Downtown Leases
The New York Observer recently profiled leasing activity at 14 Wall Street, the landmarked 37-story, Trowbridge & Livingston tower that dates from 1912. Here at gbNYC, we noted over the summer that...
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L&L Holding’s 195 Broadway Cops 2008 Energy Star Award
195 Broadway is a 29-story, landmarked tower at the corner of Fulton and Dey Streets in lower Manhattan. Owner L&L Holding Company recently earned a 2008 Energy Star Award from EPA for the 1...
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Weekend Reading: Frank Gehry Talks Beekman, New Yorkers Go Crazy For Compost,...
As you may have noticed, gbNYC has been in energy-saver mode over the last week-plus. This is in part because of our dedication to efficiency and sustainability in all its forms, but mostly it’s...
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The Big 1: Conde Nast Inks To Anchor LEED Gold 1 WTC
In a basic sense, there’s no such thing as forgetting about 1 World Trade Center. But while we know what the SOM-designed 1 World Trade Center will look like (and if you’ve forgotten, you can always...
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Come on Down: 125 Broad Street is Lower Manhattan’s First LEED Silver Tower
Mack-Cali, the real estate investment trust, announced today that 125 Broad Street has earned a Silver rating from USGBC under the LEED for Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance rating...
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Texas-Based ESCO to Retrofit First Commercial Building in New York City
In cooperation with its joint venture partner Mitsui & Company, Transcend Equity Development Corporation out of Dallas will perform a free $1.4 million energy-efficient retrofit at 125 Maiden...
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Arup Earns LEED Gold for Lower Manhattan Offices at 77 Water Street
The global design firm Arup announced last week that it has earned Gold certification under the LEED for Commercial Interiors rating system from USGBC for its Manhattan offices at 77 Water Street in...
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Manhattan LEED Buildings Land Large Q4 Leases with Sandow, AECOM
Two high-profile, Class A, LEED-labeled Manhattan office buildings each closed major leases during the fourth quarter of 2012. At the LEED-EB Silver Time-Life Building in Midtown, the Rockefeller...
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You Can Always Go Downtown: HarperCollins Moving From Midtown to 195 Broadway
It’s not every day that we get to cover transactions involving more than one green office building here at gbNYC. But – as the Observer reported yesterday – when its lease expires in 2014, the global...
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Century-Old 14 Wall Street Earns 2008 Energy Star Designation from EPA
Regardless of your perspective, it’s critical to keep in mind that the most sustainable of buildings is the existing building, particularly when retrofitted for energy efficiency improvements and...
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Proposed Mixed-Use Tower Integrates Gardens, Urban Farming at 80 South Street
A futuristic, thousand-foot, 70-story tower is being proposed for the 80 South Street site that was once slated for Santiago Calatrava’s equally fantastic “Sky Cube” tower that was a 2008 credit...
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NBBJ Earns Manhattan’s Ninth LEED-CI Rating at 2 Rector Street
Global architecture firm NBBJ recently earned a LEED Silver rating from USGBC for its new New York City offices at 2 Rector Street downtown. The space is the ninth in Manhattan to cop a LEED for...
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Advertising Agency Expands at Lower Broadway Energy Star
Omnicom, an advertising agency, has expanded its footprint at the Energy Star-labeled 195 Broadway, by taking an additional 26,000 square feet at the 29-story, 1.1-million-square foot tower. The deal...
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375 Pearl Street Continues Transformation Into Intergate.Manhattan Data Center
In a renovation to what an architecture critic once called a “disturbing” piece of architecture, 375 Pearl Street at one time was slated to become a Class A commercial office building. But now...
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With 1 World Trade Center Topped Out, Industry Expects Rest of Tenants Will Come
Image credit: Port Authority of NY & NJ via AECOM. Back on May 10, Tishman Construction placed the final piece of 1 World Trade Center’s spire in place, finally topping out the tallest tower in the...
View ArticleBig Tower, Small Spaces: 1 WTC to Subdivide 2 Full Floors for 18 Office Tenants
In an effort that could fuel more leasing activity at the LEED Gold-hopeful 1 World Trade Center, the Durst Organization has announced that two full floors of the 104-story tower will be subdivided to...
View ArticleIn Ground Zero First, 4 World Trade Center Set to Open Its Doors
Silverstein Properties is set to open the future home of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey at 150 Greenwich Street, marking a historic first for the redevelopment of the World Trade Center...
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