leed: CityCenter Las Vegas earns LEED certifications - 09/15/09 01:17 PM
MGM Mirage's CityCenter project going up right on the Las Vegas Strip received some very good news from the U.S. Green Building Council. The mammoth upscale undertaking won't open until December, but an otherwise tough year for the gaming firm is finally showing a peek of the sunny side of things … (8 comments)
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leed: Green building to the rescue - 07/01/08 10:43 PM
A lot of exhaustive debate is going on around the country about how to start resolving our worsening energy crisis. Well, that's good. In reality, though, this same topic has been discussed in U.S. Congress, college campuses, energy conventions, just about everywhere really, for a couple of decades now and nothing … (6 comments)
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leed: CityCenter resort finally gets a name - 05/22/08 10:32 PM
MGM Mirage's CityCenter is currently regarded as the biggest privately-financed real estate project in the U.S. It consists of many components large and small, okay mostly large, and they each have been given names long ago. Except one. And it happens to be the main attraction of the entire development sitting … (2 comments)
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leed: The Palazzo Las Vegas is LEED - 04/14/08 06:57 PM
The Palazzo resort, a recently-opened Las Vegas Sands creation on the Strip, is much more than a deluxe all-suite hotel tower, large casino, upscale shops and several gourmet dining spots under one roof. A few know that it is also in the forefront of eco-friendly design not only in town but … (4 comments)
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leed: UNLV wants to be the leader - 11/02/07 12:58 PM
University of Nevada, Las Vegas is on a long-range quest to become a national research school, a novel goal for someone stuck in the middle of casinos, gourmet restaurants, magnificent shows and car-paint melting summer heat. How do you fit the word research into that? Well, you can if you manage … (2 comments)
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leed: Union Park, Las Vegas, will go green - 08/10/07 11:04 PM
The City of Las Vegas owns a 61-acre parcel of land just west of downtown that was a former rail yard. It's aptly called Union Park. It has been vacant for years while the city has tried to attract developers to put something useful there. Plenty of ideas have been tossed … (8 comments)
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leed: Summerlin development going green - 06/26/07 11:49 PM
Summerlin has been famous for years for being one of the top-selling master-planned housing communities in the nation. Which has partly helped Las Vegas carve a favorable niche for itself as a livable city. Besides that, it has top finishes on other lists, too. It was the first local developer to introduce extensive desert landscaping in its … (4 comments)
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leed: Nevada green building setback - 05/03/07 02:47 PM
Just two years ago Nevada elevated itself to the national forefront of green housing legislation. It enacted a much-admired law that offered businesses 30 to 50 percent tax reduction for up to 10 years for constructing environmentally sound buildings. Now the law has been suspended. And we are asking, why? The … (3 comments)
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leed: U.S. Green Building Council's new program - 05/02/07 12:46 PM
The new initiative is called Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhoods, or LEED-ND. It's actually the first time the Council is working on a program with outside participants, who in this case are the Congress for the New Urbanism and the National Resources Defense. There is something else new. … (6 comments)
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leed: Vegas high-rise condos seek LEED certification. - 04/07/07 05:08 PM
LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. It's a Green Building Rating System designed by the U.S. Green Building Council, a nationally recognized benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high performance green buildings. Okay, that very official-sounding part is out of the way now. For more specifics from the Council, click … (1 comments)
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