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Abandoned Bohn Ford site to become green business hub
Green Coast Enterprises, a local real estate services firm, and EcoPark, a social entrepreneurship entity, have the building at 401 N. Carrollton Ave., under contract and plans to develop it into the Building Block, an office complex geared toward housing businesses with interests in minimizing environmental impacts. more…
4 Jun 2010
CityBusiness
Live Online Event: Successful Approaches to Greening NSP Rehabilitaion
Will Bradshaw participated in a webinar presented by Enterprise™s Foreclosure Response Initiative, which explored two examples of local programs that have used the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) as an opportunity to incorporate a comprehensive green strategy into the acquired foreclosed homes, and how other local programs can implement similar green strategies into their acquisition/rehabilitation programs. more…
27 May 2010
Enterprise Community Partners, Inc.
A phoenix out of the ashes
Many successful innovations arise out of crises, which create remarkably fertile opportunities for reinvention. Post-Katrina New Orleans is no exception more…
18 Mar 2010
The Chronicle
All Things New Orleans: The Face of Rebuilding in New Orleans
An interview with local green building advocates, including Reuben Teague, begins at time slot 13.40. more…
28 Jan 2010
89.9 WWNO Radio
Will Bradshaw and Reuben Teague Named to 40 Under 40
Will Bradshaw and Reuben Teague, owners of Green Coast Enterprises, refuse to be typical real estate developers. So when they research a potential proposal, they look beyond the financial end of the deal. more…
2 Nov 2009
Gambit Weekly
No Place Like Home: Keeping the American Dream Alive
Green Coast Enterprise’s Will Bradshaw discuss how other groups are helping to revitalize and strengthen neighborhoods in New Orleans. more…
30 Oct 2009
The Tavis Smiley Show
Green Coast Enterprises Wins Bronze in CityBusiness Innovator of the Year
For New Orleans, weather is a major concern. That’s why Green Coast Enterprises has created housing that is resistant to hurricanes, extreme heat, humidity, and termites. more…
25 Sep 2009
New Orleans CityBusiness
Sunflowers bring hope – and possible eco-benefits – to New Orleans
Talk about multitasking “ sunflowers planted on previously blighted vacant lots are providing not just beauty more…
9 Jul 2009
The Christian Science Monitor
Pittsburgh’s GTECH Strategies helps to remake New Orleans
There’s a real possibility to help people envision their neighborhood and their spaces in new ways more…
17 May 2009
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
America’s Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs
Social entrepreneurs, enterprising individuals who apply business practices to solving societal problems, such as pollution, poor nutrition, and poverty are now 30,000 strong and growing more…
3 Apr 2009
Business Week
Salvation Army giving Broadmoor residents energy-efficient upgrades
The Salvation Army will be completing the 12 green renovation projects in Broadmoor, with the assistance of local developer Green Coast Enterprises more…
31 Jan 2009
The Times-Picayune
Homes in New Orleans’ Gentilly neighborhood are designed to be energy-stingy
Project Home Again has been constructing eight energy-efficient, single-family homes over the past four months more…
10 Jan 2009
The Times-Picayune
Bouquets & Brickbats
Green Coast Enterprises, a local real estate developing and consulting company that focuses on environmentally friendly and storm-resistant construction, has been awarded a two-year fellowship from Echoing Green, a venture capital firm that invests in smaller, socially conscious entrepreneurs. more…
10 Jun 2008
Gambit
New Orleans developers receive fellowship
The pair of young developers who founded Green Coast Enterprises after Hurricane Katrina said Monday that they had received a fellowship from Echoing Green, an organization that recognizes social entrepreneurs. more…
8 Jun 2008
The Times-Picayune
Traditional on the Outside, Innovative Inside
Builders in New Orleans face more than the usual obstacles than those that confront the home building industry in other parts of the country. Labor and materials shortages combined with the devastated roads and other infrastructure in the wake of two 2005 hurricanes are just two of them. more…
4 Jun 2008
Framework Online
It’s easier being green
Green Coast Enterprises LLC is scheduled to complete its first New Orleans venture — an energy-efficient, storm-resistant four-plex condominium on Fortin Street in Mid-City in mid-April. more…
31 May 2008
Daily Journal of Commerce
N.O. condos get keen on green
About 100 contractors, builders, financiers and building consultants gathered May 9 at the Steel Framing Alliance’s “Jazzing up the Green” event to catch a glimpse of the Arabella, the first sustainable condominiums to be featured on the National Association of Home Builders tour of green homes in and around New Orleans. more…
20 May 2008
Daily Journal of Commerce
Hope Among Heartache
The NAHB National Green Building Conference kicked off with a Green Homes Tour that showcased the struggle to rebuild New Orleans“and the smart ways some are bouncing back. more…
12 May 2008
Builder Magazine
N.O. home builders association testing ‘green’ building program
The Home Builders Association of Greater New Orleans today said it will test a national program for “green” building practices before the program’s national launch in February. more…
26 Oct 2007
New Orleans Citybusiness