Liberty & LEED

Liberty has been an active participant in the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED® (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) program for many years. The U.S. Green Building Council is a building industry nonprofit that promotes sustainable development and developed the LEED rating system that has become the national standard for environmentally responsible design and construction. Today, Liberty has almost 8 million square feet of LEED registered green space completed or under construction nationwide.

Liberty currently has 35 LEED projects completed or under construction nationwide, more than any other commercial developer in the U.S. The U.S. Green Building Council awarded Liberty its 2006 LEED Corporate Leadership Award for exceptional vision, leadership and commitment to the evolution of green building, the only commercial developer so honored.

Liberty’s Leadership in LEED development:

• Developed the first developer-owned Platinum LEED-CS(Core and Shell) building in the world, One Crescent Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA
• Built the first speculative warehouse registered for LEED Core and Shell certification in the U.S. and the first in the nation to earn LEED Silver certification.
• Developed the largest LEED registered distribution facility in the U.S. at 552,000 square feet, the JohnsonDiversey Inc. warehouse in Sturtevant, WI which earned Gold certification
• Developed the nation's tallest LEED registered building, Comcast Center, Philadelphia, PA
• Developed the first LEED certified building in Jacksonville, FL, the PHH Mortgage building
• Built the first LEED certified building in Scottsdale, AZ, for the Vanguard Group which earned Gold Certification
• Developed the first LEED certified building in the Lehigh Valley, PA region, The Plaza at PPL Center, which earned Gold certification
• Developed the first LEED certified building in Chesapeake, VA, 1317 Executive Boulevard, a Class A office earning Silver certification.
• Developed the first office building designed to achieve LEED Core and Shell certification in Tampa, FL, at 4631 Woodland Corporate Center Boulevard
• Developed the first speculative, office building designed to achieve LEED certification in the Twin Cities region, 7625 Smetana Lane, Eden Prairie, MN which earned Gold certification
• Developed the first LEED registered industrial building in Houston, TX, Central Green 9 designed to achieve LEED Silver certification
• Developed the first LEED registered warehouse in Lehigh Valley, PA at 920,400 square feet.