Back by popular demand — Intervale Green in the Bronx!

Saturday’s on BambiGoesGreen will bring more information/pictures/details about the stories that you the reader loved most during the week.

This week’s features this of . The complex, on Intervale Avenue between Freeman Street and Louis Niñe Boulevard, an infamous strip of South urban blight, is a new, green, low-income housing development. The building, developed by the Women’s Housing and Economic Development Corporation, or Whedco, a nonprofit group, opened to qualified low-income residents in February, and has filled about a third of its 128 apartments. Designed with a large, glass-windowed lobby, two green roofs and a sculpture-filled courtyard, the development, tasteful, sparkling and , could give many cookie-cutter luxury buildings a run for their money.

Reader Shirah from the University of Vermont wrote to me:

“It is wonderful to hear of green building projects in the cities, where it is the most visible to thousands of people every day. I think it’s quite clever that there is a green roof on it, as a visual reminder of it’s mission and goals. As cities grow more and populated, it is essential that we look to ways to create green housing that will be sustainable for our future. Here at the University of Vermont, (http://learn.uvm.edu/igs ) we realize that creating a more sustainable world is more obtainable when it becomes accessible and is encountered in a day to day basis.”

Thanks for the comment and information, Shirah!

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