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July 2, 2007
Malls getting a little greener
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Jon Ratner scores points for Forest City for sustainability and green initiatives. Is it possible that he hasn't had a look at the 22-acre superblock mega-arena-office-residential complex in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn?
Forest City Enterprises Inc., the owner of the Mall at Robinson, made a splash in sustainable development with a project on the site of the former Denver International Airport.
The community there had produced a detailed plan for what it wanted, including many elements considered to be part of sustainability, such as energy efficiency and paths to connect to the rest of the community.
It went well, said Jon Ratner, who worked on the Stapleton project and is now Forest City's director of sustainability initiatives. So well, in fact, the company decided the same principles might work in its other properties.
NoLandGrab: Forest City will have to go much farther than recycling and compact fluorescents to make Atlantic Yards sustainable.
Posted by lumi at July 2, 2007 9:24 AM