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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Green development/sustainability still crucial to real estate industry

from GlobeSt (11/20):

Last updated: November 20, 2008 07:40am

Despite Economy, Sustainability a Priority
By Ian Ritter

"BOSTON-Chaos on the economy has been at the top of real estate professionals’ minds for months now, but according to a recent GlobeSt.com and Real Estate Forum’s second annual Existing Buildings survey, green building is still a priority. The report, which was done in conjunction with the US Green Building Council and BOMA (Building Owners and Managers Association) was released yesterday here at the USGBC’s Greenbuild conference.

Nearly 87% of the 251 professionals that responded to the survey said that greening their portfolios is a priority for their business, up from 81.5% last year." ...

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