BID Wins Sustainability Award

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We’re proud to announce the DowntownDC BID recently received a Mayor’s Sustainability Award for outstanding achievements in sustainability that support the city’s Sustainable DC initiative.

The BID’s role as a facilitator and catalyst for collaborative sustainability programs and services has grown substantially after leveraging strong relationships with several stakeholders to create the DowntownDC ecoDistrict in April 2011. The ecoDistrict gives the BID a framework within which to pursue goals of economic vitality and environmental sustainability by working with BID-based building and business owners. Our commitment to sustainability implementation efforts span the local and national level and include both public and private partnerships.

Among the outstanding achievements undertaken by the BID to support the mayor’s goal to make DC America’s most sustainable city:

· Led by example by creating an Infrastructure and Sustainability department which integrates sustainability into the organization’s transportation initiatives, capital projects and environmental programs

· Embraced 100% wind power at its SAM Program headquarters building (1229 New York Avenue)

· Joined the city as a participant in the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) inaugural Green Power Purchasing Challenge and urged Downtown businesses and organizations to join

·Participated in developing the mayor’s Sustainable DC plan by serving on the Green Ribbon Committee, co-chairing the Transportation Working Group and providing input in all working group areas.

· Joined the White House’s Better Building Challenge, pledging to help reduce energy consumption in the ecoDistrict by 20% by 2020

In total, 10 winners were recognized by the city, and three have ties to the DowntownDC BID area. They are: FRESHFARM Markets, with farmers’ markets in Penn Quarter and near the White House; Monaco Washington DC (700 F Street), a luxury Kimpton Hotel; and Cassidy Turley, which handled the day-to-day project management required for Terrell Place, located at 575 7th Street, to achieve LEED-Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance Platinum certification—DC’s first trophy office building to attain this status.

Summaries and case studies of each award winner are posted on the District Department of the Environment’s (DDOE) website.