More green for green roofs in downtown Chicago buildings

Michigan Avenue Tower I rooftop garden

The Mayor has a very green approach to residential recycling: reroute cash to friends with ties to organized crime rather than wasting it on a program that works. But we have to give him credit for other green initiatives (sorry if this city link is slow), such as a measure he’s introducing at today’s City Council meeting, a pilot program that would give owners of downtown buildings matching funds for installing green roofs.

More than 60 green roofs were built or announced in 2005 in Chicago, bringing the total to more than 200 official green roofs encompassing 2.5 million to three million square feet. Chicago now claims to have more green roofs than any other U.S. city, and developers of new condo buildings such as Michigan Avenue Tower I (above), which have seen fast sales, are starting to realize towers with grassy tops can result in another kind of green.

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