[CPEO-BIF] Summit Brands building, Fort Wayne, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownfield’s revival boosts city, company

John Urbahns
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (IN)
November 7, 2013

Joel Harter, owner and CEO of Summit Brands, and his family have had a commitment to our city since the company’s founding in Fort Wayne in 1958. Recently, Summit Brands took that commitment one step further by not only expanding but also taking on redevelopment of a brownfield site.

On Oct. 10, Summit Brands held a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating this expansion with the opening of their new 100,000-square-foot distribution facility off Conestoga Drive.

Summit Brands didn’t just take the property and make it acceptable; by developing the project under LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) standards, the company decided to make it exceptional. LEED projects require sacrifices of time and money, but by developing this facility under tight environmental restrictions, Summit Brands has demonstrated that sustainability can be a worthwhile endeavor.

Multiple steps were taken to reach LEED standards including, but not limited to, recycling of 605,180 pounds of metal, installation of two high-efficiency thermo cycler units, and new efficient lighting.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20131107/EDIT05/311079968/1021/EDIT

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
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