Articles About Commercial Real Estate

This article is written for Rofo.com by Laura Billings, Principal of Sage Green Development, a green building development and consulting firm.  Please contact Laura at laura@sagegreendevelopment.com with any questions.

You’re a small business owner, you are moving your office to a new location or thinking of renovating your existing space, and although you’re interested in greening your business and office, you think “I’m too small to have any clout with my landlord, it’s too expensive, and anyway, as a small business, I don’t have that much impact.”

According to an article in www.greenbiz.com, small businesses account for 99.9% of the 26.8 million businesses in the country, employ half of the private sector and use half of the electricity and natural gas consumed by the commercial and industrial sectors.  The choices you make about your office location and fit-out DO matter, and what’s more, it can be very rewarding to move into your new space knowing you did what you could to reduce the environmental footprint of your company.

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