| 02/17/2010 | Kennedy is an industry-leading advocate for "green building.? As a founding member of the Green Building Finance Consortium (www.greenbuildingfc.com) and a USGBC member, Kennedy has played an active role in defining green building practices and evaluating the investment fiduciary's role as it pertains to "investing-in-green." Kennedy continually seeks to incorporate innovative ideas of sustainability, targeting LEED Silver certification for all new development and redevelopment projects. Sustainable features included in Kennedy projects include: high performance glazing, lighting and systems, low-flow fixtures, photovoltaic arrays, vegetative roofs, native landscaping and operable windows among others. Kennedy has approximately $1 billion in LEED certified and pre-certified assets within its portfolio of varying property types, and an additional $1.5 billion in LEED projects in development or under consideration.
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