Living City Block

Launched summer 2010 in Lower Downtown Denver, Living City Block is a multi-phased redevelopment project that will prove the case for making our cities radically more resource efficient, one block at a time. According to their website, they demonstrate a business model and economic development opportunity while fostering a thriving local community. Living City Block serves as a proof of concept replicable throughout the city, the United States and in large urban centers around the world.

Partners in building a sustainable future

The Alliance for Sustainable Colorado, as the cornerstone partner for Living City Block’s Denver project, benefits from the services provided by the US Department of Energy and National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Commercial Building Partnerships. Among these services is an in-depth energy analysis and overall assistance for the Alliance’s Renovation Project, which aims to offer a cost-effective and replicable framework for renovating existing buildings to become energy neutral.

“By the year 2050, eighty-percent of the world’s population will live in cities, while seventy-five-percent of our existing building stock will still be in use.  In order to create a more resilient, energy efficient and desirable urban environments that can meet an ever-increasing demand for energy and other resources, we must develop a new paradigm for retrofitting our existing city neighborhoods.” Living City Block

With these facts as the main drivers of the organization, Living City Block not only strives to adapt existing urban areas into energy efficient, and even energy neutral, locations, but to also improve employment rates and the tax structure.  It understands that in order to succeed in environmental stewardship the economic and social benefits must improve as well. Although LCB was established in Denver in 2010, one of its biggest goals is to develop a model which can be successfully implanted in any city across the country, and eventually, the globe.  To do this it must build relationships with building owners, the local government leaders, and specialists within the field of building efficiency.

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