[CPEO-BIF] Green Buildings on Brownfields

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[These days everyone seems to be talking about incorporating 
sustainability into new buildings on brownfields sites. Here are two 
examples. - LS]


On Bucks brownfield, a green office center

By Suzette Parmley
Philadelphia Inquirer (PA)
October 25, 2007

If he gets his way, Brian O'Neill just may become the poster boy for the 
green movement in the real estate world.

Long an innovator in transforming brownfields, developer O'Neill is now 
going green.

He's banking on a half-dozen "environmentally friendly" commercial 
office buildings in Bucks County to translate into a greener bottom line 
for his King of Prussia development company.

O'Neill Properties Group broke ground yesterday on the $250 million 
Horizon Corporate Center, billing it as the largest green development 
project ever in the suburban Philadelphia office market.

...

For the entire article,see
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/business/20071025_On_Bucks_brownfield__a_green_office_center.html




Going for the green -- in more ways than one

Opinion
Kalamazoo Gazette (MI)
October 25, 2007

It won't be just another business park.

The new Davis Creek Business Park, built on reclaimed contaminated 
property that once was home to a petroleum refinery, is expected to 
incorporate state-of-the-art ``green'' elements in its design.

The city, working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the 
Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, has worked to develop a 
business park that will meet many of the environmentally friendly 
standards that the U.S. Green Building Council is urging.

According to the Kalamazoo city officials, the most prominent design 
feature will be a stormwater handling system that will purify stormwater 
by directing it into swales and wetlands before it flows into Davis Creek.

...

For the entire column, see
http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/columns-3/119332607297250.xml&coll=7

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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