All Entries in the "LEED" Category
Ground Broken on Green Chicago Residential Tower
The Chicago real estate industry is getting a new high-rise that will fill two popular needs in the city right now: Green building and rental opportunities.
With homeownership at historic lows, many residents in Chicago and around the nation are turning to rental properties for living quarters.
Developer AMLI Residential broke ground last week on a [...]
Green Chicago Rental Nabs Prestigious Award
A new Chicago real estate tower has been named “High-Rise of the Year” by Multifamily Executive Magazine.
EnV, one of the first LEED-certified apartment buildings in Chicago, is a 249-unit luxury rental property that was designed by Valerio Dewalt Train Associates.
The building was honored with the 2011 MFE Award for its green design.
The 29-story, mixed-use tower [...]
Chicago Multifamily High-Rise First to Earn Green
A Chicago real estate apartment building has earned the city’s first multifamily LEED EB Silver certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
One East Delaware (OED), which is located right off the Magnificent Mile in Chicago’s premier Gold Coast neighborhood, becomes the third largest community in the country to earn the certification.
Owned by Waterton Residential, OED [...]
New Chicago Neighborhood Will Focus on Green
The Chicago real estate landscape will be getting an entirely new community in the future, and that community will qualify for the nation’s first sustainable rating system for green neighborhoods.
Lakeside is a proposed community to be built along Lake Michigan on Chicago’s South Side where the U.S. Steel’s South Works manufacturing plant used to sit.
The [...]
Chicago Rental Residence Achieves Green
More Chicago real estate is striving to be eco-friendly these days, and one of the latest parcels to achieve the green certification happens to be an apartment building.
215 West, located at 215 W. Washington St. in downtown Chicago, is the first rental residence to be built in the Loop in the last 15 years and [...]
Denver’s First LEED Platinum Single Family Home
Urban Green Development is proud to announce the groundbreaking of Denver’s first LEED Platinum single family home to be built in the NW Denver’s Highland neighborhood. “The Green Cube Showhome” has received a LEED Platinum level classification from the US Green Building Council, the highest level of green sustainable building. The project is looking for [...]
“Big Blue” plays the suit of green
Location: 330 N. Wabash, Chicago, IL 60611
Contractor: Bear Construction
Owner: Prime Group Realty Trust
By William Olson
At the Chicago River’s southerly hiccough, a modern icon has gone green.
The building at 330 N. Wabash, Mies Van der Rohe’s…
Atlanta Welcomes First LEED Certified Restaurant Pizza Fusion
Astoria at the Aramore, a luxury mid-rise condo located in the Historic Peachtree Battle area, is the lucky neighbor of Pizza Fusion. Located on the first floor of the Aramore, this is the first LEED certified restaurant in the Atlanta area. Not your typical pizza restaurant, Pizza Fusion is dedicated to being socially, economically and [...]
Independence Station: The World’s Greenest Building
Independence Station is a $15 million mixed-used development under construction in Independence, Oregon. Due to recent changes in LEED certification, the building had to be re-evaluated to see where it would fall on the new rating system (LEED v3.0). Under the previous version of the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED rating system, Independence Station was [...]
Independence Station Uses Ice to Offset Energy Consumption
As Independence Station progresses they form more and more partnerships with green companies that aid them in their quest to become the world’s greenest building. Recently, the green developers announced that they chose CALMAC’s IceBank® Energy Storage System for eco-friendly cooling of Independence Station.
The ice storage technology from CALMAC was chosen to be a part [...]
