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EcoCity's 
new home
is under
construction!
The groundbreaking (actually, a ceremonial wall
painting) for our new offices was August 7. By the end of the year we
will be joining other organizations in the Cleveland Environmental Center,
a rehabbed 1918 bank building on the corner of Fulton Road and Lorain
Avenue in the Ohio City neighborhood of Cleveland. The project aims to
be the first commercial green building retrofit in Ohio, merging an historic
retrofit with cutting-edge, affordable, green building principles.
Here are some recent photos.
Mayor Jane Campbell (speaking above), Councilmen
Joe Cimperman, Matt Zone, and Nelson Cintron, and a host of neighborhood
and environmental activists kicked off the rehabilitation of the Cleveland
Environmental Center on August 7. The ceremony was in the the former bank
lobby of the historic building.
One of the upper floors of the old bank building,
gutted and ready for renovation.
Contractors are drilling 300-foot deep wells
under the parking lot behind the building for the geothermal heating/cooling
system.
The building will soon have a "green
roof" covered with vegetation to provide natural cooling and stormwater
retention.
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EcoCity Cleveland
3500 Lorain Avenue, Suite 301, Cleveland OH 44113
Cuyahoga Bioregion
(216) 961-5020
www.ecocitycleveland.org
Copyright 2002-2003
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