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Starting From Scratch, Developer Plans America’s First Eco City in Florida

Long before Anthony Pugliese bought 27,000 acres located in Osceola County in Central Florida, he considered himself an artist and designer of sorts. Growing up in New Jersey, his childhood role models included Thomas Edison and Leonardo DaVinci, men who invented and created their bold new ideas. ...

What Tenants Should Know About Green LeasesWhat Tenants Should Know About Green Leases

Green leasing seems headed toward becoming part of the mainstream real estate discussion....

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Law firm O’Melveny & Myers www.omm.com has been awarded LEED gold certification for commercial interiors in an existing building for its San Francisco office…. ...

Mayor Bloomberg Pushes Energy-Efficient Legislation for New York

After 18 months of gutting and retrofitting the infrastructure of New York’s 1909 landmark Argonaut building in Manhattan, the $20 million green renovation will be complete this summer. ...

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Green Funds Acclimate to Chilly Climate 

As the cost of new development becomes prohibitive, green opportunity funds are looking for different ways to invest. Rather than take on the risk of...

BOMA and Clinton Climate Initiative Launch Program to Streamline Green Retrofit Process 

The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) and the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI) have developed a contract model, BOMA Energy Performance Contracting (BEPC), to help property owners and operators simplify the process of making energy-efficient retrofits to existing buildings....

Staying Lean and Green 

At the EPA's Region 8 headquarters in Denver, custodial crews perform all of their cleaning tasks during daylight hours. Janitorial teams working among...

Low-cost fixes can yield big savings 

Property owners and managers can ease into a green operations program by taking low-cost measures to conserve energy before committing to a complete green...

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...

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