Hand Dryers Save 7,000 Gallons of Water!

Over the past three years Old Town Plaza has invested nearly $500,000 to dramatically reduce the building's energy consumption. Using less energy saves our customers money and trims our carbon footprint. Justin and I thought we had tackled almost every area of energy waste until we discovered paper towels. Old Town Plaza currently uses an astonishing 288,000 paper towels per year! That is the annual equivalent of 24 trees and is responsible for 1,270 lbs of garbage that must be bagged, handled and driven to a landfill.

To combat this problem we have started to install Xlerator hand dryers in the Old Town Plaza bathrooms. The first pair were successfully installed on the first floor of Building A and will yield exceptional savings. These two hand dryers alone will save 317 lbs of paper towel waste, 6 trees, 745 kg of CO2 and 7,000 gallons of water every year! Operating these dryers is also over 80% cheaper than purchasing an equivalent amount of paper towels.

Over the next year we will continue this project throughout the building so as to eliminate paper towel use by 2012.

Sign a New Lease, Plant Some Trees!

For every new lease signed at Old Town Plaza between December 2010 and March 2011, Intermarket Investment Group, LLC will make a contribution to planting trees in sustainable ecosystems right here in San Diego.  These donations will be made in your name and can be counted toward your firm's commitment to reducing it's carbon footprint.

Sign a Lease.  Plant Trees.  It's just that simple!

To find out more about Intermarket's commercial office spaces for lease in San Diego, visit www.LeaseOldTown.com

San Diego Commercial Office Space - Suite A-240 is Available for Lease

Old Town Plaza, Old Town's Greenest Commercial Office Building, is please to announce that Suite A-240 is now ready and available for lease.  Suite A-240 is 505 rentable square feet and features a fantastic windowline - especially for an office suite in this size range.  This office space also features a very shallow bay depth, so the natural light floods the entire office.  The open floor plan offers prospective tenants total flexibility.

Perfect for a variety of applications, Suite A-240 is perfect for start-ups looking to have a great location, secure underground parking, a green upgrades and a commercial office building location that is just minutes from Downtown San Diego.

Call Matt or Justin to schedule your tour today: 619.692.0802.

From USD Business School: What does the research say on green real estate?

Owner-Direct Pricing for Leasing Office Space

Prospective Tenants for Office Space
Old Town Plaza presents prospective tenants with the ability to deal directly with the on-site ownership.  Dealing directly with the owner lowers leasing costs and saves you money! 

Commercial Real Estate Brokers/Agents
As a member of the San Diego Commercial Real Estate community, Intermarket Investment Group is happy to work with ALL procuring Commercial Brokers and Office Agents.  Our lower cost structure allows us to provide enhanced value to procuring Brokers and Agents.

Contact our office today to find out how you can take advantage of these great opportunities!

http://www.leaseoldtown.com/leasing.html

Old Town Plaza Office Interior is Complete

Three new works by Cotch Diaz have been installed at Old Town Plaza. These exceptional photographs represent the culmination to what has been a year of extensive building improvements. We have also relocated some of the beautiful photographs by Nikki Li at Akula Kreative to areas of the building that were a bit bare. We hope that the entirely new hallways, paint, molding and artwork have enhanced everyone's experience at Old Town Plaza.

Two of Cotch's photographs have been installed in the Building B Lobby niches. These images are a continuation of the Coronado Bay Bridge diptych installed in Building A. The third photo is installed across from suite A-101. This work delivers an incredibly powerful perspective of the Bay Bridge and its strong diagonals and rich color saturation really capture your attention.

We will be finishing the year with some improvements to the garage. Gustavo, our day porter, has been tirelessly painting P1 and P2 and the results speak for themselves. Additionally all of the garage lighting will be upgraded over the next two weeks. This upgrade will dramatically increase the lumen output of existing fixtures and reduce our overall energy consumption by seven percent, a tremendous savings.

Thanks to everyone for their feedback and we look forward to continue to make Old Town Plaza one of the premier buildings in San Diego.

Advanced Office Water Filter - Save Money, Save Your Back

Greg from Pure Water Technology of San Diego stopped by Old Town Plaza this week to tell us more about their awesome PW1R Water Filter for commercial office use.  We have been using the PW1R here in the Intermarket office for several months now and it is awesome.  Here is Greg to tell you more about the system and how putting one in your office here at Old Town Plaza will not only save you money, but also do a little good for our environment too.

Renewable Wind Power by Gamesa Energy USA - Nick Henriksen

As many of you are well aware by now, Intermarket Investment Group, LLC is constantly searching for new and innovative ways to make Old Town Plaza a vibrant and exciting microcosm of  case studies for sustainable, energy-efficient commercial office space in San Diego.  To that end, we would like to present a a guest blog post from one of our newest tenants and a valuable player in the exploding renewable energy sector - Gamesa Energy USA's Nick Henriksen.

As the U.S.-based development arm of Gamesa Corporación Tecnológica, Old Town Plaza tenant Gamesa Energy USA is responsible for the development of wind farms in the United States and Northern Baja California.  Development activities consist of all the activities associated with wind generation projects including site identification, wind measurement, obtaining the necessary permits and licenses for construction and commissioning, final sale of projects and operations & maintenance. 

As Gamesa Enegy’s parent company, Gamesa is among the world leaders in the market, having installed 18,000 MW of turbines through 2009 and maintaining 30 manufacturing facilities in Europe, the U.S., and Asia.  This commitment to locally-based manufacturing allows Gamesa to sell wind with a higher percentage of U.S.-made components than any other wind turbine manufacturer in the industry. 

Wind generation is one of the most reliable and effective forms of renewable energy and is now cost-competitive with traditional (fossil) sources of electrical generation in high-demand markets like California. 

The outlook for renewable energy growth is strong in the western U.S. and Gamesa Energy’s San Diego office is responsible for ensuring that we are all able to decrease our reliance on fossil fuels and generate more of our power here at home. 


Nick Henriksen is the Director of Development for Gamesa Energy's West Coast Division. Prior to Gamesa, Nick worked for Eurus Energy America, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Tokyo Electric Power Co. and Toyota Tsusho Corp.
Nick studied International Relations and Economics at The Johns Hopkins Univ. and did his undergraduate work in American History at Haverford College.  

If you would like to learn more about renewable energy, please also see another guest OTP Blog post about renewable photovoltaic (solar) by Andrew: http://www.leaseoldtown.net/2010/10/let-sun-shine-not-quite-yet-but-soon.html

From USD Business School: Does Green Real Estate payoff financially?

I recently came across this video post from the University of San Diego's Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate.  It features a USD Business School Professor discussing green real estate investing and the where green improvements fit into the commercial real estate landscape.  Overall, a good little video about the state of the green commercial office market and how tenants are placing more and more value on green, energy efficiency improvements like those featured here at Old Town Plaza.  Check it out:

New Suite For Lease - Old Town Plaza Suite B-126

Intermarket Investment Group, LLC is proud to announce that Suite B-126 will be available for lease 01 December 2010.  Suite B-126 is perfectly laid out for DOD/SPAWAR and other professional applications.  This suite can also come FULLY FURNISHED if you would like.  Click here for more information on B-126 from our website - LeaseOldTown.com.  

Schedule a tour of B-126 today by calling Matt or Justin at 619-692-0802.  Our office is on-site, so we can tour on short notice without any problem.

Check out the video tour on YouTube.

Meg Whitman Visits Old Town Plaza

California Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Meg Whitman visited her campaign office here at Old Town Plaza yesterday to rally the troops just hours before the big election day. 

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local-beat/Next-Stop-San-Diego-106461638.html
http://www.10news.com/news/25540296/detail.html

Awesome PBS NOVA Special: The Big Energy Gamble

In my endless search for more information and an additional competitive advantage in the commercial real estate business here in San Diego, I came across this fantastic NOVA Special called The Big Energy Gamble.  NOVA examines the energy situation we have here in the Sunshine State and the United States as a whole.  In particular, it highlights how environmental regulation is it's own worst enemy...

Enjoy!

http://video.pbs.org/video/1051958162/

To learn more about the energy efficiency and environmental upgrades we have implemented here at Old Town Plaza, check out the OTP Goes Green page on our website:

http://www.leaseoldtown.com/otp_goesgreen.html

Don't forget to help Old Town Plaza, one of San Diego's most environmentally friendly commercial office buildings, reach 2000 Friends on Facebook so we can throw another great (and FREE) Tenant Lunch Event here in the Courtyard!  To find out more, check out this earlier post from the OTP Blog:


http://www.leaseoldtown.net/2010/10/help-otp-get-to-1000-friends-on.html