From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Thu, 7 Nov 2013 20:11:33 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Summit Brands building, Fort Wayne, Indiana |
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. … For the entire article, see http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20131107/EDIT05/311079968/1021/EDIT -- 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 LSiegel@cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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