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 …

In case you missed it, the official groundbreaking ceremony for CAPTRUST Tower at North Hills took place on Tuesday. Over 200 people came to see Kane Realty, Duke Realty, CAPTRUST Financial Advisors and local officials broke ground on the 17-story mixed use development, which will offer 300,000 square feet of premium rentable office and retail space when it opens in fall 2009.
Key speakers at the event included:

John Kane, CEO, Kane Realty Corp.
Denny Oklak, CEO, Duke Realty
The Honorable Charles Meeker, Mayor or Raleigh
Harvey Schmitt, president, Greater Raleigh Chamber of …

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 …