360 State Street is a residential

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completed in 2010 in

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. It is the second-tallest building in the city, and the largest apartment building in the state. DeSimone Consulting Engineers were the structural engineers on the building and it won the 2009 New York Construction – Top Project of the Year.

Features

The mixed-use modernist building, includes 500 luxury apartments and of retail space. Designated a "green" building by the

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(USGBC), it is the first residential building in Connecticut to gain

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(LEED) Platinum status and includes a rooftop garden as well as a corner "pocket park" that may be developed as a day care center in the future. A full-scale food co-op occupies the building's ground floor. 360 State was constructed on the site where Shartenberg's Department Store stood from 1915 to 1962.

Green living

* Connecticut's first residence targeting LEED Platinum Certification * 1/2 the

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and utility bill of a conventional apartment * Energy-use web page with remote programming for each apartment * 400 kW fuel cell on site to produce clean, renewable power 360 State Street gets 'green' fuel cell
News8 Wtnh Retrieved Friday, 28 May 2010 * Elevators that recapture their own energy * Electric-car charging stations * Zipcars available * Convenient first-floor storage for your bicycle * Recycled and local construction materials * Recycling room on each floor * Real-time building performance data available * Half-acre green roof with

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and irrigation system * Building-wide high-efficiency lighting and occupancy sensors * Demand-control ventilation * Exhaust-heat energy recovery * Walk to over 30 Zagat-rated restaurants * Next to State Street train station with direct access to New York. Near Union Station for travel to Boston, Hartford and Washington, DC * This clean energy project was made possible by a grant from the Connecticut Clean Energy Fund

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