Buildings/Real
Estate: Green, Preservation & Innovative Operations
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Carnegie-Prospect
Properties Inc. of for profit Renaissance International
Enterprises Inc. is developing the largest residential
green retrofit currently underway in the city. This
is the 36-unit historic six-story Walker & Weeks
building, the former Cooper School of Art at E. 22nd
Street and Carnegie Avenue. While this building may
not meet all of the recently introduced Leadership in
Energy and Efficiency Design standards for buildings,
it is an ambitiously "green" project. Michael Ujcich
is vice president of Renaissance International Enterprises
Inc. 440-943-4112
Case
Western Reserve University North Residential Village
is going green. http://housing.case.edu/
Cleveland
Green Building Coalition provides
an e-mail announcement newsletter useful to anyone interested
in building, real estate and land use. The purpose of
the nonprofit Cleveland Green Building Coalition (GBC)
is to generate broad support for various individual
efforts, build momentum, and advance the green building
agenda in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio through education,
consultation, and cooperation. The Cleveland GBC is
an umbrella organization for various building industry
interest groups, including those involved in residential,
commercial, institutional, and industrial green building.
Among numerous endeavors, the CGBC includes a "Green
Contractors" unit led by Gary Cole and Jim LaRue a highly
sought after Green building consultant. Soon after graduating
from Oberlin College, southwest of Cleveland, Sadhu
Johnston founded the CGBC in 1998 and was a leader in
bringing into existence the Cleveland Environmental
Center, located in a bank building at the corner of
Lorain Avenue and W. 32nd Street in the Ohio City neighborhood..
Johnston will be in town until mid-autumn 2003, when
he leaves to take over sustainability initiatives for
the City of Chicago. He will also remain on the board
of the CGBC. A search is underway for a new executive
director of the CGBC. See education
section of Cleveland Pathfinders for CGBC's Green
Schools Initiative. Melanie Kintner is education coordinator.
http://www.clevelandgbc.org
Cleveland
Restoration Society and Preservation Resource Center
of Northeastern Ohio is a non profit organization which
strives to develop economically viable solutions to
preservation challenges in order to preserve and enhance
the architectural heritage of our region. CRS programs
include a "Heritage Home" low-interest rate Loan program,
for maintaining and repairing older homes, a Neighborhood
Historic Preservation program and a Preservation Resource
Center. Kathleen H. Crowther is executive director.
http://www.clevelandrestoration.org/
eQuest
Engineers, Inc. eQuest is a for-profit business
focused on "Guiding building owners and builders
through the ‘greening’ of an old or new building. A
‘green building’ uses recycled materials, thermal heating
sources, solar panels, lighting techniques and natural
conditions to save energy and make a healthy indoor
environment." – Crain’s Cleveland Business.
eQuest, is a small firm with a large presence in the
green building movement. eQuest has helped design the
Cleveland Environmental Center and a number of other
green buildings in Cleveland and elsewhere. It's work
in China, helping tycoons there build green buildings
in time for the 2008 Olympics, slowed with the SARS
scare. Joseph Pustai is president, and Lisa Hong is
vice president. She is also one of the guiding lights
behind Green Energy Ohio (GEO). http://www.equestengineers.com/
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Hemisphere
Industrial Park Hemisphere Development LLC is
cleaning up and removing tons of contaminated soil to
bring industrial development back to an abandoned industrial
site, sometimes known as the "Forgotten Triangle." The
100 acre site, once used by John D. Rockefeller’s Standard
Oil Co., is on the East Side near E. 80th
Street and Kinsman Road. Hemisphere is involved with
redeveloping 1,800 acres of brownfields in Ohio. Todd
Davis is president. http://www.hemispherecorp.com/
Lakeside Blueprint developed eBlueprint,
a digital image and information processing system that
provides large efficiencies for builders. eBlueprint
has the potential to become a standard for construction
design image processing nationwide. Brett Scully is
CEO. http://www.eblueprint.com
The
Second Growth Institute focuses on re-industrializing
urban areas in concert with the neighborhood stakeholders.
The overriding goal is to bring new jobs and business
back to brownfields while maintaining both economic
and environmental justice principles as defined by the
U.S. Catholic Pastoral documents. Issues tackled: 1)
Industrial real estate brokers' reluctance to seek
brownfield remediation; 2) Bankers' reluctance
to research potential projects, much less to fund them;
3) Fostering trust in the neighborhood in environmental
justice issues. Maggie Keenan is director. Contact:
Maggie
Keenan.
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