Wed 26 Sep 2007
Augusta, Maine to get a LEED Platinum Supermarket!?
Written by Nicholaus Harris under Corporate Responsibility
I just came across a post on greenbuildingsNYC revealing that Hannaford Supermarkets has proposed to build a 49,000 LEED Platinum supermarket in Augusta, ME. This comes as a particular surprise to me since I spent my childhood years 20 miles away in Appleton and never dreamed Hannaford (formerly Shop ‘N Save) had any environmental aspirations. Also, Augusta commonly gets called “disgusta” by other Mainers.
Developments like this are certainly encouraging as it shows businesses are really waking up to the fact that they will save money if they enact good conservation programs.
(This particular Hannaford is definitely failing on the impermeable surface test!)
