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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. creates a home base for his environmental vision.

Environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken his renewable energy vision home.
Kennedy’s newly-rebuilt Westchester home, dubbed “the Kennedy Green House,” is a showcase for cutting-edge solar shingles, solar thermal, and geothermal heating and cooling—technologies he’s been touting and investing in for years.

Sustainability and increased collaboration are fundamental factors in Cushman & Wakefield’s relocation project.

As John C. Santora, president and CEO of the Americas at Cushman & Wakefield, walks past bright work stations, translucent offices, and high-tech conference rooms, he is regularly interrupted by coworkers’ greetings. Entirely unperturbed, Santora not only enjoys these interruptions, but encourages them, tapping on glass partitions to spark a quick exchange of pleasantries or simply wave hello.

Chromavis, the Italian cosmetics research and development firm, has opened its first U.S. office—1,500 square feet at 24 West 57th Street. The move establishes the company in the heart of the Plaza District, long the home of many of the world’s top cosmetics companies.

When Monday Properties began renovating the visitors center at the Helmsley Building—the Beaux Arts masterpiece at 230 Park Avenue that once housed New York Central Railroad—a little design problem cropped up.