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October 19, 2007
The Great Green Way in DUMBO
The Brooklyn Paper
By Adam F. Hutton
Another building in Brooklyn is "going green," adding to the list of new project applications for LEED certification (emphasis added):
Galapagos Art Space — that hipster haven that has been Williamsburg’s home for outsider performance art since 2003 — is moving to DUMBO next year, and when it does, it’s going green.
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More than 50 Brooklyn projects — including 15 buildings in the Atlantic Yards project — have registered for the Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification, including a planned 358-unit, market-rate apartment building at 184 Kent Ave. in Williamsburg and the NYPD impound lot at the Navy Yard.
NoLandGrab: Not to be a wet blanket here, but just because Atlantic Yards developer Bruce Ratner has applied for certification, it doesn't mean the buildings will complete the certification process.
According to NY Observer reporter Matthew Schuerman, in 2005, "The New York Times and its co-developer, Forest City Ratner Companies... decided that it is not worth the cost or the fuss to get certified—and that they can do just as well without them, according to the co-architect on the project, Bruce Fowle."
Posted by lumi at October 19, 2007 8:09 AM