DENVER — Seventeenth Street Plaza in downtown Denver has received LEED Gold Certification. Located at 1225 Seventeenth St., the property is the first multi-tenant property to earn the certification in the Rocky Mountain Time Zone. The 666,653-square-foot building is only one of 17 existing office properties in the United States to earn the gold certification under the Existing Building or Operations & Management (EB-OM) standard. J.P. Morgan Asset Management, the building’s owner, appointed Jones Lang LaSalle to manage the property in 2000. To obtain LEED Gold certification, the management team implemented the following strategies: installation of a weather satellite-controlled landscape irrigation system to control water usage according to local weather conditions; creation of a recycling program that redirects 219 tons of waste annually; replacement of fluorescent bulbs with more cost-efficient low-mercury bulbs; and increased use of sustainable maintenance products.
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