Today, Duke Realty and Kane Realty announced that they are working to make Captrust Tower at North Hills the first speculative office building in Raleigh to go green – a.ka. achieve the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification for New Construction by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).
They’re aiming for Silver certification, which is the third highest in LEED’s scale of greenness, after Platinum and Gold, but higher than Certified. To put things into perspective, there are only about 100 buildings in the world that have achieved …

Since it wasn’t hot at all today, I decided to walk around and take some pictures of the North Hills construction across the street from the main shopping area. This new section of North Hills will be an addition to the mixed-use office/shopping/living destination that we have currently.
After 40 minutes and sweating buckets of water, I came back with some pictures of the construction. You’ll see that there are five cranes in the area now; the tallest crane is stationed where the Captrust Tower is being built. It also appears …

In late January, Duke Realty Corp. began construction on what will be a 17-story mixed-use office building. Kane Realty will help Duke Realty develop the building. Here are a few facts about the building, which will be called Captrust Tower at North Hills.
Total size = 302,400 square feet

274,000 square feet for office space
28,400 square feet of rental space

Scheduled to open in mid-2009
First tenant = Captrust Financial Advisors (and the building will be named after them)
Other Tenants

Ogletree, Deakins, Nas, Smoak & Stewart, PC – law firm
CB Richard Ellis – commercial real …