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Tenant’s New Defense to Hazardous Substance Liability

Green Building Law Update

Such is a real issue when in any given year the vast majority of commercial and industrial real estate transactions are leases and not contracts of sale. Phase l ESAs will now become much more common in commercial and industrial leasing.

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Phase l Assessments for Tenants are the Hottest Environmental Issue in 2020

Green Building Law Update

In 2020, an increasingly large number of prospective tenants, from commercial banks to sports apparel retailers and the defense industry are actively seeking protection for existing contamination before signing leases. Such is a dramatically large issue with the economic contribution of real estate to the U.S.

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I Just Read my 1000th Phase I Environmental Site Assessment this Year

Green Building Law Update

The majority of our work in reviewing Phase I Environmental Site Assessments is for lenders across the country, much of that undertaken by a non law subsidiary of this law firm, but the fastest growing segment in this space, by far, is Phase Is for commercial tenants. In 2020, the state of the environmental industrial complex is strong.

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Tenants Order Phase l to Avoid Hazardous Substance Liability

Green Building Law Update

Such is a real issue when in any given year the vast majority of commercial and industrial real estate transactions are leases and not contracts of sale. Phase l ESAs are now becoming much more common in commercial and industrial leasing.

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RELi Could be Standard Practice in Nearly Every Real Estate Transaction

Green Building Law Update

is significant because it is widely suggested, just as a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment is now standard practice in nearly every commercial real estate transaction in this country, that in the future the same will be true of a resilience assessment. The launch of RELi 2.0 The Green Business Certification Inc.’s Of note, RELi 2.0

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Delta Relocates Latin America and Caribbean HQ to Brazil

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On November 5, 2012, executives at Delta Air Lines announced that the Commercial Headquarters for the company’s Latin America and the Caribbean region will be moving from Atlanta to Sao Paulo, Brazil. Nicolas Ferri, vice president — Latin America and the Caribbean. Our goal of becoming the best U.S. ”

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BUSINESS REPORT: Alabama – Donghee America Plans $48-Million Fuel Tank Plant In Auburn

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Robert Bentley has announced that auto supplier Donghee America Inc. Donghee America will produce fuel tanks to serve the nearby automotive industry, which includes a Hyundai assembly plant in Montgomery and a Kia operation just across the state line in West Point, GA. “We Bentley said. Chairman D.H.

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