Environment News
Constructive Destruction: Demolition Goes Green
For many commercial real estate developments and every remodeling job, demolition offers developers and landlords their earliest opportunity to conserve resources and minimize the impact of a green building project on the environment....
Sustainability Takes Center Stage
A year ago, the Colliers Turley Martin Tucker’s board of directors decided to create a sustainability leadership team at the board level that represented the different disciplines within the company...
NorthMarq Capital Funds $27 Million Portland Waterfront High-rise
NorthMarq Capital recently provided financing of almost $27 million for Alexan South Waterfront, a 294-Unit, 22-story high-rise apartment community located in Portland, Oregon....
Q&A with Mychele R. Lord, founder, LORD Green Real Estate Strategies
Mychele Lord has focused on sustainability throughout her 22 years in commercial real estate, a career that spans property and asset management, leasing and development...
Environment Articles
Are You Covered?
Insurance experts are learning that green building is fraught with risks to owners and their service providers. Casualty liability underwriters worry...
Innovations Widen Spectrum of Sun-Powered Technologies
High energy prices this summer are turning up the heat on research and development to make solar power generation more effective and affordable. ...
Hines’ West Coast Tower Achieves the Silver
Hines’ 12-story, 266,605 sq. ft. office tower is the first building in California and on the West Coast to be certified for silver status by the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED Core & Shell program, according to the company. ...
Transwestern’s Larry Heard Makes the Case for Sustainability
Commercial real estate companies agree that sustainability is a business issue. We want to conserve energy and manage costs and do so with outstanding building operations management. ...
Q&A with Dara Kovel, regional director, Jonathan Rose Cos.
The most critical green decisions developers make are how and where, rather than what, they develop, according to Dara Kovel, director for the New England regional office of Jonathan Rose Cos....
Green Gains Clout With Commercial Lenders
In San Francisco, Houston and across the country, a handful of community banks and some of the nation's largest lenders are discovering fertile ground...
Banks Cultivate Green Loans
In San Francisco, Houston and across the country, a handful of community banks and even some of the nation’s largest lenders are discovering a growth area in construction loans and mortgages for sustainable commercial real estate. ...
Stirling Targets Logistics Center for LEED
Stirling Capital Investments has completed its fourth industrial building at the Southern California Logistics Centre (SCLC) in Victorville, Calif. ...
Q&A with Jon Ratner, Director of Sustainability, Forest City Enterprises
Over the past quarter century, Cleveland-based Forest City Enterprises (NYSE: FCEA and FCEB) has become known for its large, mixed-used projects that require working with communities to redevelop underutilized pieces of real estate....
Green Leases: A Matter for Debate
As companies stake their branding and corporate reputations on sustainability, office landlords and their tenants are exploring ways to hold one another accountable for green practices through lease provisions....
