Developer Plants 'Bio-Wall' Project at Metairie Building
New Orleans City Business › May 27, 2008
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Green building is going live. Literally.
New Orleans developer Josh Bruno has taken the first step toward creating a vertical ecosystem of hardy climbing plants and lush foliage on the concrete exterior of a Veterans Memorial Boulevard shopping center. The living "bio-walls" will be the first in the Gulf South, bringing Metairie into the ranks of Paris, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Toronto, where living walls have flowered.See the full content of this document
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Developer Plants 'Bio-Wall' Project at Metairie Building
"We want to show people that you can put a live, green building in a place of tar and cement," said Bruno, 27, who bought the two- story strip mall at 4427 Veterans Memorial Blvd. earlier this year for $1.7 million.
Bio-walls are essentially gardens planted on rectangular panels packed with moisture-retaining soil that are attached to concrete walls. Plant roots reach ...See the full content of this document
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