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Green Building Race in Williamsburg

Posted by Glenn on July 6, 2006 - 10:18pm in The Oil Drum: Local
Topic: Environment/Sustainability
Tags: green buildings, leed, oil, peak oil, williamsburg [list all tags]

While Battery Park City hosts some of NYC's more well known Green Buildings, there is an hot race to construct the first Green Building in Williamsburg that the New York Post Real Estate section recently covered:

"We're competing with another architecture firm that's literally [working on a building] around the corner."

Are they competing over air rights? Sight lines? Customers? None of the above. Whoever finishes first will have erected the first environmentally friendly building of its size in Williamsburg.

Why? Well, aside from the whole environmental angle, there's that always important "money factor":

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