Noted Developer Takes Green Tech to New Heights
This morning, the News and Observer’s Jack Hagel reported that Gregg Sandreuter of Cary (hold your boos and hisses) and Cherokee Investment Partners have pitched the idea of a 38-story business/hotel/residential in downtown Raleigh. What makes this note worthy is the that the proposed building will be designed based on the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or LEED, rating system.
The stie of two tower project known as the Edison is tentatively planned for the block cornered by Wilmington, Blount, Martin and Davie Streets. You may have noticed a big pile of rubble there from recent demolision work. The block is currently owned by Progress Energy and in order to begin construction a deal will have to be reached purchasing the 3.6 acre plot. Hagel reports that some businesses will remain on that block, including Raleigh staple Clyde Cooper’s Barbeque.
Construction of the new towers would begin in 2009 if approved by the city.
Other notable projects of Sandreuter include the Dawson on Morgan (home to over 50 condos in the heart of downtown as well as the Borough) and West (in Glenwood South’s entertainment district).
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Mark
07/18 03:59 PM
What the hell does “green” mean, anyway?
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Barden
07/18 04:19 PM
The United States Green Building Council highlights the requirements for being “Green” in this <a >81-page pdf. </a>
If you meant it in a more metaphysical sense, then green is whatever you want it to be. Kinda like me changing all the lightbulbs in my house to compact fluorescents and still throwing cigarette butts out the window.
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Breigh
07/18 04:26 PM
green: a qualifying term to make things palatable and seemingly good for the earth. though there are no standards for using the word. marketing “geniuses” keep the word in their little toolboxes and pull it out when they introduce new things. ie.. green tech, green design, green architecture, green energy, etc
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Barden
07/18 04:26 PM
...but what is not green is that HTML nightmare I just typed.
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Breigh
07/18 04:29 PM
yikes! use the green preview button!
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Mark
07/18 04:35 PM
I hate how the term “green” has bastardized the idea of sustainability and become a total revenue-generating political catch-phrase. That’s all. By the way the “United States Green Building Council” is the private organization that wrote LEED. This company can prescribe to me the standards of sustainability and make money off of it? Buildings built 100 years ago were more sustainable than the shit we build today, but with no technology. Why? Because they HAD to be. How? Because buildings have been climatically evolving since the primitive hut. Now these people can overwrite their own prescriptions, call it green, and get paid. Furthermore, they are in bed with the government. No matter how “green” your building is, if it’s not LEED certified (which costs A LOT) you can forget about those sweet tax breaks.
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Timnasium
07/18 08:58 PM
but seriously, clyde cooper’s gets to stay so we can all be fat, happy, and segregated.
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Jedidiah
07/18 09:18 PM
hold your aesthetics guys, this thing will be horrible if the other projects listed are any indication!
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Barden
07/18 10:04 PM
Development has a high but necessary cost.
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