ROCKVILLE, Md., June 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Tower Companies (towercompanies.com), the largest Green Builder in our Nation's Capital and an early proponent of the US Green Building Council's LEED certification, today announced that Tower's corporate offices at 2000 Tower Oaks Boulevard, designed by Kishimoto.Gordon.Dalaya PC (KGD), were awarded LEED Platinum certification under the USGBC's Commercial Interiors green building rating system. Additionally, The Tower Building (towerbuilding.com), an Energy Star building named 2003 Green Office Building of the Year by Apartment and Office Building Association (AOBA), was awarded LEED Silver certification under the LEED for Existing Buildings rating system, making it the sixth LEED certified project for the company. Tower's award-winning LEED certified buildings include: 1050 K Street (1050kstreet.com), a co-development with The Lenkin Company, an 11-story jewel-box office building in DC incorporating the natural elements of air, water, earth and light, is LEED Gold; The Millennium Building/1909 K Street, (millenniumbuilding.com) is the first and only multi-tenant commercial office building in DC to achieve LEED certification through LEED for Existing Buildings and was the first green office building in Washington, DC; The Blair Towns (blairtowns.com) is nationally recognized by the US Green Building Council as America's first LEED Certified multi-family development in the United States. The new corporate headquarters, 2000 Tower Oaks Blvd, is a 200,000 square foot Fortune-Creating(SM) Vedic building, also designed by KGD, and is the area's first multi-tenant commercial office building to be certified LEED Platinum. In 2009, Tower began one of the largest LEED renovations in the country at The Blairs, including 1,400 apartment units on a 27-acre live-work-play community in Silver Spring, Maryland. Tower now has 7 buildings under renovation for LEED EB.
