Unidentified DEP document fragment, 2001-2002

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document 2b RIVER TERRACE will be 27 stories tall with 293 apartmentsIt will be the first high-rise residential building to use many new environmentally friendly construction methods and materials. Landscaped roof garden watered with storm runolf Air supply is filtered and conditioned with regular air-quality monitoring TRIBECA POINTE 42 storles, 345 units Stuyvesant High School TRIBECA BRIDGE TOWER 25 gtoriest pt units Moro Apartments I Battery Park Cify Hesidential bullding completed Residential building under construction TRIBECA PARK 27 stories 395 units CHAMBERS STa Future residential sites 22 RIVER TERRACE 27 stories 304 units THE HALL MAR 14 stories 218 units High-pefrormance thermal windows High use of materials with recycled content Built-in solar panels generate 5 percent of building electricity Apartments have high-efficiency appliances and lighting with master shut-off Hotel And Sinemne American Express Merril Lynch Hudson Piver WORED ANANCIALICBATER WORLU TRADE CENTERSITE New York Mercantlle Exchange Winter- Garden Parking garage with efficiency lighting and pollution monitors Provision for future electric fuel cells Worin Cove Dow Jones Oppennelm -Water recycling plant Tank to hold rainwater- collected for site irrigation GATEWAY PLAZA Three 34-story and three low-rise bulldings 1,712 units ABANYSTE A Green Foothold in the Downtown Concrete Apartment High-Rise Will Set an Environmental Benchmark Near Ground Zero By KIRK JOHNSON In the nerdy world of green construc- tion, 20 River Terrace was already an address with a big reputation - even before everything changed. The bullding, begun early last year just a few blocks from the World Trade Cen- ter, was to be the world's most environ- mentally correct residential high-rise, its developers said - an air-purified, solar- paneled monument to the marriage of mother earth and technological gee-whiz. Now as construction resumes after a 10-month break during the cleanup of ground zero, the 27-story tower has be- come even more than the sum of its ambitions, builders and environmental- ists say. When the job started, Lower Manhat- tan was pretty much a finished product, and 20 River Terrace, for all its depar- tures from the norm, was just another bullding. Now the city is gripped by a debate over what to rebuild at ground zero and what future to envision. Environmental awareness among resi- dents, office workers and employers was sharply elevated by the dust from the twin towers' collapse and the lingering smoke from their ruins. A regional drought put new value on water conserva- tion. And the linkage of Middle Eastern oil and the financing of terror gave solar power new life, environmentalists say, because using alternative fuels can now be considered an act of political defiance. The biggest single element that has changed,development experts say, is that in Lower Manhattan, thinking beyond the old boundartes is now in fashion, and right there, on downtown's front porch, is Ex- hibit A of how to do it. *To have a sustainable building going up in an area that was a target of a terror for the trade center in the late 1960's) had attack is a very powerful thing, said planned a series of green residential tow- Richard Florida, a professor of regional ers long before Sept.11 economic development at Carnegie Mel- The philosophly is that it you create a Ion University in Pittsburgh and an advis- healthier bullding, youmakepeople er to the Regional Plan Association, healthier,sald Timothy S. Carey, the which is helping put together a new de- president and chief executive of the au- sign for downtown. "9 think there's a thority great possibility that this examplewill No matter what philosophical effect 20 trigger things even more imaginative.on River Terrace has or does not have on the part of architects or designers." downtown, developers say, it is also very Other planners and environmentalists mucha prototypethat must work on its say that 20 River Terrace and the set of own, in engineering and financial terms. environmental constructionsstandards Aithough New YorkIs already home to created by the Battery Park City Author- what is considered the nation's first envi- ity, which oversees the building project, ronmentally green high-rise office tower, are already leading the way. The con- the Conde Nast bullding at 4 Times struction resumed inJuly and completion Square in Midtowni, apartment buitdings is expected next spring. The authority, a have very different issues and patterns of state-chartered agencydeveloping the use, from the peaks of power demand to landfill areas of Lower Manhattan (which were largely created by the excavation Continued on Page B8 NYC-WTC_000143183