Sustainable and High Performance Development
Sunday, July 18th, 2021
As we transition to a low-carbon economy, states, counties, cities, towns, and villages across the country are rapidly adopting low carbon goals and there is growing pressure to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. We are entering a new phase in real estate development, where high-performance will become the new baseline. High-performance affordable housing serves the multifamily sector’s best interests, reducing negative health outcomes, increasing resiliency, and creating alignment with local, state, and national low-carbon goals.
In our next three monthly Housing Webinars, Pattern for Progress and its Center for Housing Solutions is partnering with the Community Preservation Corporation for a joint series focused on Sustainable Development and Demand for Low Carbon Buildings. The virtual series will offer best practices and solutions through conversation about how Sustainable Development can be achieved, specifically, through the lens of multifamily property development.
Part 1: Multifamily Developers Choosing High Performance
Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 9:00AM
The webinar series kicks off this Thursday, July 22nd at 9:00am, with a conversation dedicated to Multifamily Developers Choosing High Performance. Yetsuh Frank, AIA, LEED BD+C, Managing Director of Strategy & Programs at Building Energy Exchange will moderate the panel discussion. The panel includes Ryan Wallace, Partner of The Solar Village Company and CEO of Solar Home Factory, whose team constructed the first net-zero modular housing development in the United States and whose company is expanding to build multi-family structures across the northeast. Zevilla Jackson Preston, R.A., Principal at JP Design Group, and Vogue Jackson, Director of Development at JP Design Group, a design and development firm focused on carbon neutrality, recognizing the interconnection of Sustainable Design and the social, physical, environmental and cultural vitality of a community.
Part 2: Save Energy & Reduce Carbon through Downtown Revitalization
Thursday, August 12, 2021 at 9:00AM
On Thursday, August 12th at 9:00am, the series continues with a look at saving energy and reducing carbon through downtown revitalization. Joe Czajka, Senior Vice President at Pattern for Progress and Executive Director of Pattern’s Center for Housing Solutions moderates this panel discussion. Paul Beyer, Director of Smart Growth Planning at the Office of Planning, Development & Community Infrastructure for New York State Department of State, where he promotes the principles of Smart Growth, sustainable development, Livable Communities and collaborative governance on the state, regional and local levels, joins the conversation with Kevin O’Connor, CEO at RUPCO, an organization whose mission is to provide healthy and sustainable housing at an affordable price, through their preservation and development work in Ulster County, and David Szlasa, Designer and Project Manager of Basilica Green, which focuses on increased climate action through innovative cultural programming and are breaking ground on the Basilica Net Zero Campus Project, which will transform the institution’s reclaimed industrial building and campus on the Hudson Riverfront into a leading carbon-neutral destination for year-round programming and community engagement.
Part 3: Financing High Performance
Thursday, September 23, 2021 at 9:00AM
In the final webinar of this three-part series, Joe Czajka, will moderate a conversation with Atalia Howe, Manager of Sustainability Programs, and Danielle Donnelly, Sustainability Associate at The Community Preservation Corporation to present the organization’s Sustainability Platform, and financing tools to achieve High Performance in multifamily housing development.
The Community Preservation Corporation (CPC) is the largest Community Development Financial Institution in the country that is solely dedicated to investing in multifamily housing and one of the first real estate nonprofits in the United States to achieve carbon neutral operations. CPC’s Sustainability Platform was initiated in 2008 to carry out the organization’s mission focus on energy efficiency and de-carbonization and has since financed hundreds of energy efficient, multifamily projects. This conversation will explore the benefits for both lenders and building owners of implementing different levels of energy efficiency and water conservation measures, including enhanced financial stability, tenant satisfaction, and improved property condition.
