Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park is First Commerical Skyscraper in U.S. to Acheive LEED Platinum
The Durst Organization and Bank of America Recognized for Exemplary Environmental Design and Construction by the U.S. Green Building Council
A Tour of Jolly Green Monster One Bryant Park as It (Officially) Opens
43 Years in the Making The recently completed Bank of America tower (a.k.a. One Bryant Park) will have its official grand opening gala Thursday night—complete with scheduled appearances by Mayor Bloomberg and tenant Al Gore—with the owners throwing the celebration now that some final touch-up work is finally completed and the scaffolding has been taken down. (The building opened to tenants in 2008.)
Date 2010-05-20
Author Eliot Brown
BofA tower gets top green-building rating
950-foot tower earns first LEED-Platinum honor; tower designed to use two-thirds less power, save 7.7M gallons of water and please more tenants.
Date 2010-05-20
Author James Comtois
New York City's two tallest skyscrapers are going green
The Bank of America Tower, the second-tallest building, became its first commercial high-righ last week to win the top or platinum rating from the non-profit U.S. Green Building Council, according to Reuters.
Date 2010-05-04
Author Wendy Koch
In City Real Estate, Old Clans Are Shrewd Again
At the height of the boom, the Dursts, the Rudins, the Roses, the LeFraks and other members of New York’s royal real estate families were treated like slow-moving dinosaurs on the verge of extinction.
Date 2010-02-08
Author Charles V. Bagli