COLLIER CENTER AND PHOENIX PLAZA
RECEIVE LEED® EB CERTIFICATION

CB Richard Ellis-Managed Properties Become Arizona’s
First Two Privately Owned Multi-Tenant Existing Building Certified “Green”

The Phoenix Asset Services Division of CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) announces Collier Center and Phoenix Plaza have become Arizona’s first two privately owned multi-tenant existing buildings to receive the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) LEED-Existing Buildings: Operations & Maintenance (LEED-EB O&M®) certification.  The buildings achieved Silver-level certification. 

Collier Center, located at 201 E. Washington St., is a 24-story, 567,163-square-foot class A multi-tenant office tower.  The building is managed by CBRE’s Real Estate Manager Jami Vallelonga, CPM®, RPA®, LEED AP.  Phoenix Plaza is located on the northeast corner of Central Avenue and Thomas Road.  The property, consisting of two 20-story class A office towers totaling 836,059 square feet, is managed by CBRE’s Senior Real Estate Manager Diana Rivers, CPM®, LEED AP.  Both properties are owned by the GE U.S. Pension Trust, advised by Stamford, Conn.-based GE Asset Management, one of the largest managers of institutional assets in the United States.

“CBRE is among the greenest companies in the United States,” said Afton Trail, CPM®, managing director of CBRE’s Asset Services Division in Phoenix. “We are committed not only to minimizing our impact on the environment, but to assisting our clients in doing the same at their properties.  The LEED-EB certification of Collier Center and Phoenix Plaza are examples of our commitment to lead the industry in environmental sustainability.”

The certification process for Collier Center and Phoenix Plaza was managed by CBRE’s Sustainability Programs group, which provides consulting services to help individual buildings and portfolios through LEED-EB certification.

LEED is an internationally recognized green building certification system. Developed by the USGBC, LEED provides third-party verification that a building uses strategies aimed at improving performance across a number of metrics, including energy/water efficiency, indoor environmental quality and stewardship of resources and works throughout the building lifecycle – design and construction, operations and maintenance, tenant build-out and significant retrofit.