Thursday November 9, 2006 - 5:30PM to 7:30 PM
FULL SPECTRUM NY APPLIES LESSONS LEARNED TO NEW DEVELOPMENTS
Affordable green developer takes experience from building cutting-edge high performance design into new projects in New York and beyond.
Sponsors: Benjamin Moore, Computer Floors Inc./ASM, C/S Group, Forbo, Natural
STATEWIDE SPONSOR: 
Speakers:
Michael Vaughan, Project Engineer, Full Spectrum NY
Brandon Mitchell, Director of Development, Full Spectrum NY
Julia Lynch, Asst Project Manager, Full Spectrum NY
This lecture will cover:
- 1400 Fifth -
Full Spectrum acquired this former Brownfield site in Harlem and developed the country's largest affordable green condominium. This $40M project has been listed as LEED gold by the US Green Building Council, was the only affordable housing project to receive the NY State Green Building Tax Credit and was named the Energy Project of the Year by the Association of Energy Engineers. 1400 on 5th has been hailed as the standard bearer for new multifamily affordable housing. The building uses 70% less energy than typical residential buildings, offers improved indoor air quality, and has smart amenities not normally found in affordable housing. Geothermal heating & cooling; 100MBS Internet service, wireless business center and high performance building envelopes were among the technologies deployed at 1400.
- The Kalahari -
The Full Spectrum development team has chosen to structure the Kalahari development to meet a wide range of housing, community, and cultural needs not generally met by other developments in the Harlem community. At the adjacent, project 1400 on 5th, Full Spectrum explored ways in which buildings can be designed and built in ways that will more readily enable its residents to compete in the 21st century while preserving the environment. Envisioned to provide state of the art housing for 250 families, The Kalahari will both follow and expand on this concept. The Kalahari project will look backwards for inspiration and forward for direction.
A discussion of the processes by which Full Spectrum NY
attains the following:
Environmental Sustainability
- Creating habitat that lowers the cost of energy consumption;
Economic Sustainability
- Working within public-private
partnerships whose goals are to increase the tax roll of local
governments;
- Working with
solid equity and debt investors with access to institutional grade
investment resources, helping to reduce the risk that our projects go
unfinished -- or don't happen at
all;
- Working proactively to create sound investments for the residential and business owners within our developments.
Speaker Biographies:
Michael Vaughan:
Brandon Mitchell:
Mr. Mitchell joined Full Spectrum after having served three years as a Special Assistant in the Bureau of Asset Management in the NYC Comptroller's Office. Prior to that he was Financial Analyst and Investment Officer at the AFL-CIO Housing and Building Investment Trusts. Early in his professional career Brandon was a Legislative Assistant to Jose Serano (D-NY); Xavier Vecerra (D-CA) and Joseph P. Kennedy II (D-MA) in Washington, DC where his policy portfolio included housing, energy, environment, education, civil rights, welfare reform, and gun control. His committee assignments included the House Committee on Appropriations and the Judiciary Committee.
He is a graduate of Columbia University. He also holds a Masters degree in City Planning; Housing, Community & Economic Development from MIT. His continuing education includes a summer program in Management & Entrepreneurship at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Mr. Mitchell is a member of the Green Ground Zero Advisory Board and the USGBC.