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Metropolitan Hospital Goes Green

March 17, 2005

SustainableBusiness.com had an interesting story on its frontpage today. Metropolitan Hospital, currently located on Boston Ave in Grand Rapids, is building an all-new campus south of Wyoming, near Byron Center Road and M6. It turns out that the new hospital and all of the related buildings are going to have deed restrictions requiring that they be LEED certified buildings.

It’s a very curious investment. If accomplished, it will be the first all-LEED health campus in the country. The Grand Rapids area is doing some great things, too bad we don’t get more national press.

Posted by paul at March 17, 2005 10:23 PM

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Brandon said on March 18, 2005 12:24 AM

Sweet, new auto-centric construction in the suburbs! But hey, it's LEED certified, so we can feel good about it. This is like the New Ann Arbor High School syndrome... I'm pretty sure all the extra pollution from driving out to the new locale will outweigh gains made by better building practices. Sigh... how are we all so oblivious to a concept that seems so simple? So often boring land-use is a much easier solution to problems we use new technologies to fix...

Paul said on March 18, 2005 07:37 AM

You may be ingoring the fact that the new hospital complex, and there is absolutley no room in Grand Rapids for a bustling, 24-hr hospital. Its current neighbors are upset by ambulances etc. Where else would you have them expend? Should they take out urban housing to expand?

Cooper said on March 23, 2005 11:19 AM

I helped excavate the new Met Hospital, though I take no credit for any of it.

Scott bosgraaf said on March 24, 2005 07:35 PM

Hey, I do have a web site BAKER LOFTS.COM and the phone number is 616 748 5732
and youre right I found you by googling baker lofts
Scott B

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