Names in the News

Aspen Communities LLC has named John M. VanMetre director of operations....More

Christiana Foglio, founder/owner and CEO of Community Investment Strategies Inc. (CIS), has been named a finalist for the 2013 Leading Woman Entrepreneurs and Business Owners Initiative, an honor that recognizes women in New Jersey who have support small business in the state....More

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will give the opening keynote address at the U.S. Green Building Council's 2013 Greenbuild International Conference and Expo. Elsewhere in the news, CoStar Group Inc.'s remodeled headquarters at 1331 L Street N.W. in Washington, D.C., has been awarded LEED Platinum CI certification for commercial interiors. And CME Group retained Newmark Grubb Knight Frank to explore the sale of the LEED-certified NYMEX Building, the headquarters to the New York Mercantile Exchange....More

SL Green Realty Corp. hosted a “Re-Green NYC” Earth Day action event on Randall’s Island. Savannah, Ga.-based Trident Sustainability Group,reports a steady upward trend in the amount of work the firm has been contracted in 2013. Kaiser Permanente will pursue LEED Gold on all projects and pledges $30 billion to sustainable hospital development. C.W. Driver completed the Civic Center and Park Project for the City of Newport Beach. Rapid Realty NYC hired its first chief sustainability officer....More