Model Stamford community gets green light from board.The City of Stamford Zoning Board has approved the development of Metro Green, an environmentally friendly Environmentally friendly, also referred to as nature friendly, is a term used to refer to goods and services considered to inflict minimal harm on the environment.[1] , mixed-income residential and commercial community that will serve as a model for smart growth in Connecticut and beyond. Metro Green is designed to accommodate the burgeoning housing demand for a range of income levels in Fairfield County Fairfield County is the name of three counties in the United States:
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of metropolitan region and supply office demanded by economic growth with the lowest possible environmental impact. The complex will be located adjacent to the south side of the Stamford Metro North train station. Metro Green will consist of two components: a 17-story "best in class" office tower developed by the Malkin family's W&M Properties, and an adjacent residential complex of 238 mixed-income units developed by the Connecticut office of Jonathan Rose Companies LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . "We are gratified grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. to receive the green light for Metro Green. We have designed a project that will provide Stamford and the region with an example of smart development. I am happy to be working with Jonathan Rose Companies. "Jonathan shares our dedication to green communities and integrated, mixed income housing," said Anthony E. Malkin, president, W&M Properties "Metro Green is a model solution of how communities can develop market-based solutions to climate change. Building mixed-income, green developments with integral open space near our transit hubs is key to smart growth," added Jonathan F. P. Rose, president, Jonathan Rose Companies LLC. Located within the City of Stamford's Transportation Center Design District, Metro Green will be the transition from the Stamford Transportation Center to the emerging, formerly industrial neighborhood -Stamford's South End--while preserving housing opportunities for existing residents in one of the few re maining affordable neighborhoods in Fairfield County. Jonathan Rose Companies LLC will break ground on the first construction phase of 50 affordable units, Metro Green Apartments, in the spring of 2008. The total development will include: 238 residential units, including; sale, rental, market rate and affordable units; All units will be situated on a courtyard, landscaped with sitting areas, active gardening spaces and a meditation labyrinth labyrinth (lăb`ərĭnth), intricate building of chambers and passages, often constructed so as to perplex and confuse a person inside. , with a pedestrian link to the Metro North Train Station and; 350,000 s/f of office space. Numerous public improvements to the streetscape street·scape n. 1. An artistic representation of a street. 2. Surroundings composed of streets: the urban streetscape. along Henry and Atlantic Streets, and landscape will be made, including the creation of a new public plaza; he first phase of the project, Metro Green Apartments, was designed to meet the Enterprise Green Communities guidelines and will be seeking U.S. Green Building Council's LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, provides a suite of standards for environmentally sustainable construction. ) "New Construction" certification. The residential development has been selected as a pilot project under the draft LEED Neighborhood Design criteria Noun 1. design criteria - criteria that designers should meet in designing some system or device; "the job specifications summarized the design criteria" criterion, standard - the ideal in terms of which something can be judged; "they live by the standards of their . Metro Tower has been designed to met the Council's "Core and Shell" LEED Gold Criteria. |
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