The moniker “green” has gone from being hippy, to trendy, to en vogue, to cliché and now it’s the standard. Call it what you will, but this framework of thinking is here to stay.

We liked this blog article found on The Tenant Advocate blog. It’s a list of the most important decisions you can make when locating and operating your business, from a sustainability perspective.

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The Milken Institute’s annual index of Best Performing Cities indicated that tech is back. San Jose jumped 50 spots from last year – to Number 1 this year. The index measures of job, wage, and technology performance to rank the nation’s 200 large metropolitan areas and 179 smaller metros.

Read the full story on the Milken Institute website here.

 

 

With 100% of its energy provided on-site by solar panels and its water harvested entirely from rain, a new six-story building in Seattle is being hailed as the greenest commercial structure in the world.

It’s not that the 50,000 square foot building has dramatic new green technologies, but it’s that the best of them are wrapped into a model green building.

The Bullitt Center houses the Bullitt Foundation, an important environmental foundation, run by Denis Hayes, the founder of Earth Day, and is in the process of leasing to tenants.

Read the full story on SustainableBusiness.com here.

2012 Mirrored Every Bit The Sluggish Recovery That CoStar Economists Predicted, But There Were a Few Surprises Along The Way.

Tenant demand for office space ended 2012 on a strong note as occupancy gains spread across a broadening array of U.S. markets, opening the door for widespread rental rate increases this year, CoStar Group reported in the company’s Year-End 2012 Office Review & Outlook.

Read the full story on CoStar here.

 

 

The San Jose City Council on Tuesday is poised to take one of its most important environmental votes in decades on a plan that over the next 50 years would protect habitat for endangered species even as development continues.

This is a big deal for development projects here in Silicon Valley. The plan could increase costs for some projects, but it could also help streamline the environmental permitting process and provide a bulwark against CEQA challenges.

Read the full story in the San Jose Mercury News here.