Two banks take the LEED: Sense of place can also mean sense of stewardship.(PNC Financial Services Group Inc.)(Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)

ABA Banking Journal, August, 2007 by Streeter, Bill

Gary Saulson's reaction to the phone call was probably typical. A representative of a local environmental group had heard that PNC Financial Services was building a new operations center in Pittsburgh and wanted to know if the bank would consider making it a "green" building. Saulson, director of corporate real estate for the big regional responded, "We've already ordered the steel; maybe next time." Undeterred, the person asked for haft an hour of his time anyway, and he agreed. The haft hour meeting became two and a half hours, at the end of which Saulson was convinced that green was the way to go.

Completed in 2000, PNC's Firstside Center was the largest building at the time to be certified by the U.S. Green Building Council, a Washington-based nonprofit...

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