360 State Street

360 State Street is a 300-foot (91 m) residential skyscraper completed in 2010 in New Haven, Connecticut. It is the second-tallest building in the city, and the largest apartment building in the state.^[5][6] DeSimone Consulting Engineers were the structural engineers on the building and it won the 2009 New York Construction – Top Project of the Year.^[7]

360 State Street
Former names	Shartenberg Site Tower I
General information
Status	Completed
Type	Rental apartments
Location	360 State Street New Haven, Connecticut
Coordinates	41.3047°N 72.9230°W / 41.3047; -72.9230
Construction started	December 1, 2008
Topped-out	December 11, 2009 [1]
Completed	2010
Cost	US$180 million
Height
Roof	91.4 m (300 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	31
Floor area	700,000 sq ft (65,000 m2)
Design and construction
Architect(s)	Becker + Becker Associates Schuman, Lichtenstein, Claman & Efron
Developer	Becker + Becker Associates
Structural engineer	DeSimone Consulting Engineers
Main contractor	Suffolk Construction Co.
References
[2][3][4]

Features

The mixed-use modernist building, includes 500 luxury apartments and 25,000 sq ft (2,300 m²) of retail space. Designated a "green" building by the US Green Building Council (USGBC), it is the first residential building in Connecticut to gain Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum status and includes a rooftop garden and a pool as well as a corner "pocket park" that may be developed as a day care center in the future.^[8][9] A full-scale food co-op occupies the building's ground floor.^[10] 360 State was constructed on the site where Shartenberg's Department Store stood from 1915 to 1962.^[11] The building allows pets except for the common areas of the 6th floor.

Green living

• Connecticut's first residence targeting LEED Platinum Certification
• 1/2 the carbon footprint 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 ^[12]
• 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 rainwater harvesting 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

References

1. Galvan, Eva (11 December 2009). "360 State celebrates construction benchmark". Yale Daily News. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
2. "360 State Street". CTBUH Skyscraper Center.
3. "Emporis building ID 281722". Emporis. Archived from the original on March 6, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
4. "360 State Street". SkyscraperPage.
5. "360 State Street". New York Construction. Retrieved 4 June 2011.
6. Bass, Paul (1 December 2008). "Dig Out That Downturn". New Haven Independent. Retrieved 2011-04-06.
7. "360 State Street - DeSimone". www.de-simone.com. Retrieved 2015-12-16.
8. Bruce Becker (15 March 2010). "Leading the Way in Green Design, Connecticut's First LEED Platinum Apartment Building". PRNewswire. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
9. "Design New Haven: 500-unit Shartenberg Mixed-Use Development Progresses". Downtown New Haven. 2009-10-21. Retrieved 3 April 2013.
10. "New Haven Apartment Tower: $4,700-A-Month Penthouse". Hartford Courant. 2010-03-09. Retrieved 2011-04-06.
11. "360 State Street, New Haven, U.S.A." Emporis. Archived from the original on June 4, 2011. Retrieved 3 April 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
12. 360 State Street gets 'green' fuel cell News8 Wtnh Retrieved Friday, 28 May 2010

External links

• Official website