"Green" not always a selling tool.While some buyers in eco-friendly eco-friendly adj → ecológico eco-friendly adj → non nuisible à or qui ne nuit pas à l'environnement eco-friendly adj buildings are looking for green living, many others end up in green buildings by chance. One resident moved into the Kalahari Kalahari (kä'lähä`rē), arid plateau region, c.100,000 sq mi (259,000 sq km), in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. The Kalahari, covered largely by reddish sand, lies between the Orange and Zambezi rivers and is studded with dry in Harlem because of the newness, and not the greenness, of the building, and a couple moved to a LEED-certified building on Roosevelt Island Roosevelt Island formerly (until 1921) Blackwell's Island and (1921–73) Welfare Island Island in the East River, between the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, New York, New York, U.S. because of the views. Another couple needed more space and wanted to be close to Wall Street, and ended up signing a lease for a two-bedroom at the Tribeca Green. "Green construction means delivering a significantly higher-quality building," said Russell Albanese, president of the Albanese Organization, who built the green buildings Solaire and Visionaire. "All the features are almost too much to tell the buyer at first. But as they live in the building, they become informed." |
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