And at Illinois' Park Forest Mall, near Chicago, Sears and other big stores were razed about 10 years ago to make way for a Main Street thoroughfare that includes a town green, residential units and a series of smaller stores.
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The fourth site is for eight residential pitches on green belt land on the edge of urban development at Throop Road, between Woodbury Avenue and an area of allotments.
From the Colosseum, cutting across the ancient racecourse Circus Maximus, it is a wonderful stroll up the Aventino, one of Rome's seven hills, home to a dreamily upmarket residential district with deep-green trees shading its orange-ochre buildings.
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The company, which specializes in modular live roof systems, has supplied more than 3 million square feet of green roof, including around 30% for residential use, in just the last few years.
He noted that NRG electricity retailers Reliant and Green Mountain Energy would be natural channels for a residential solar business.
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Members of Save Weddington: Oppose the Residential Development (Sword) said the green space in Nuneaton is not suitable for development.
Green home building is projected to encompass as much as 38% of the U.S. residential market by 2016, according to a study by McGraw-Hill Construction and the National Association of Home Builders, up from 17% in 2011.
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Yingli Green Energy, just off a scorching fourth quarter in which it was the top seller of commercial and residential solar panels in California, is taking its show to the East Coast.
They support adding parks and more green space, public transit, improved public access to beaches and waterfronts and creating more walkable communities that mix residential and retail uses.
The rise of the self-sufficient home comes amid an expansion in green homebuilding that is projected to swell to between 29% and 38% of the U.S. residential market by 2016, according to a study by McGraw-Hill Construction and the National Association of Home Builders, up from 17% in 2011.
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