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Westhab Breaks Ground on Dayspring Commons

On December 11th members of the Yonkers and Westchester community gathered next to a dilapidated church for Westhab’s Dayspring Commons groundbreaking. Located in Nodine Hill in Yonkers, Dayspring Commons will […]
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6 clever urban design ideas that all cities should steal: Park Avenue Green, Affordability and sustainability can go hand in hand

Most affordable housing projects in the U.S. involve some cost cutting: sacrificing spending on design or maintenance or amenities in order to make the math work. At Park Avenue Green, […]
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Bronx Building Named Largest Certified Passive House in North America

Bright Power, a provider of energy and water management services for real estate owners, investors, and operators, along with its partner Omni New York, LLC, was recognized by Passive House Institute US […]
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Bright Power, Inc. Receives 2019 Best of Manhattan Award

Manhattan Award Program Honors the Achievement MANHATTAN | December 16, 2019 | Bright Power, Inc. has been selected for the 2019 Best of Manhattan Award in the Renewable Energy category […]
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Park Haven Apartments Now In Progress At 345 St. Ann’s Avenue In Mott Haven, The Bronx

Construction has started on Park Haven Apartments, a new mixed-income apartment complex in Mott Haven, The Bronx. Located at the corner of East 142nd Street and St. Ann’s Avenue, the ten-story building includes […]
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Park Avenue Green is the largest Passive House building in North America

But Passive House is so expensive! How can you build housing for the homeless and low income families this way? For years it has been said that Passive House is […]
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Omni New York LLC’s Park Avenue Green Recognized by PHIUS after Bright Power Partnership Leads to Largest Passive House in North America

Bright Power Partnered with Omni New York LLC, Curtis + Ginsberg Architects and Monadnock Construction to Design Bronx Building for Affordable Living NEW YORK, Dec. 10, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bright […]
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The Grinnell’s Green Committee Wins Award for Solar Project

In the June issue of Habitat, we told the story of the dedicated, dogged board at the Grinnell, an 82-unit HDFC co-op in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan. Working with the Bright Power energy consultancy and guided by […]
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NYECC Announces 2019 Energy New York Award Recipients for Vision, Innovation and Leadership in Energy

Port Authority, JPMorgan Chase, swytchX, Sidewalk Labs and The Grinnell Award Recipients  Goldman Sachs, Cornell Tech, Omni NY, Normandy Honored   NEW YORK, NY—October 30, 2019—The New York Energy Consumers […]
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