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.

2013 brings the launch of our redesigned website (if you’re reading this, you’ve found it) and the launch of our social media channels as well.  Please be sure you connect with us on Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest and be sure to follow us on Twitter as well.  Use the links at the bottom right of this page to reach our pages.