Tag: environment
Student Housing: Local developer greens student housing

Student Housing: Local developer greens student housing

Posted 07.23.2009 | Categories: Student Housing | No Comments

Spartan Crossing, one of the multiple apartment complexes popping up around UNCG, does not have the typical amenities of some of its student housing competitors: swimming pools, fitness centers and game rooms.
Instead, the new development boasts ENERGY STAR appliances, extended on-site recycling services and a community garden. Greensboro-based Emerson Partners is an example of businesses [...]

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Data Centers: Data Center or Army Bunker

Data Centers: Data Center or Army Bunker

Posted 07.23.2009 | Categories: Data Centers | No Comments

We often associate a data center with a high technology complex and rightly so. But if anyone has the opportunity of seeing a typical data center from outside, you might mistake it for an army bunker built only for the purpose of security. Of course there are other reasons for this apart from securing the [...]

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Transit: Pittsburg approves environmental plan for transit-oriented development near eBART

Transit: Pittsburg approves environmental plan for transit-oriented development near eBART

Posted 07.23.2009 | Categories: Transit Development | No Comments

Though measures will be required to reduce its environmental impact, transit-oriented development around a planned Pittsburg BART station is one step closer to reality.
This week, Pittsburg leaders approved environmental documents for the Railroad Avenue Specific Plan, a tool to make the area around Railroad Avenue and Highway 4 more efficient with high-density housing, shops, parks [...]

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