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Wells Fargo “Attracted” to LEED-EB Silver Efforts at 100 Park Avenue
A lot of what we do here in terms of observing the local green real estate scene is anecdotal, but I do believe there is some value in attempting to draw conclusions from the deals that are (or are...
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CoStar, Owner’s Counsel Addressing Liability Aspects of Marketing Green...
Back in January here at GRELJ, I critiqued Andrew Burr of CoStar’s list of the top ten green building stories from 2008 by noting his lack of any reference to the green building litigation and...
View ArticleSeattle’s KING 5 Calls Washington Green School Claims “Oversold”
Washington State’s High-Performance Public Buildings Act requires LEED Silver certification or a design that complies with the state’s Sustainable School Design Protocol for schools larger than 5000...
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Current Issues in Green Real Estate Development: Project Location...
In most introductory real estate classes, the first and most critical rule taught is the importance of, “location, location, location.” In green building, that old maxim has taken on a series of new...
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Brooklyn’s 100 Gold Street Condos: Certifiably Green, But Not Certified LEED
Back in 2009, Stephen delivered a nice post on 100 Gold Street, a green low-rise condominium development in Brooklyn’s Vinegar Hill designed by Anthony Morena’s REDD Group. The list of green features...
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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...
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Toronto Star Investigates “Shady” Ontario Green Building Industry
In a two-part series that was published last weekend, Diana Zlomislic of the Toronto Star reviews the green building landscape in Ontario and concludes that although “[s]hoddy building is not unique...
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Unit Owners File Suit Against LEED Gold-Hopeful Riverhouse in Battery Park City
In a suit that was filed earlier this month in New York County Supreme Court under Index Number 105958/10, the owners of a condominium unit at the LEED Gold-hopeful Riverhouse development in lower...
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Weekend Reading: Great Moments In Urbanism That Weren’t; An Etymology Of...
Friday reading is best enjoyed at the end of a workday on Friday, but these links were picked to stay fresh for at least 14 days. After that, you should probably sniff your screen to make sure...
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2010 FTC Green Guides: Update & Green Building Marketing Primer (Presentation)
Last week in Toronto, I had the opportunity to present at the second annual Greenbuild Legal Forum. As my colleague Chris Cheatham points out in his overview of the event at Green Building Law Update,...
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