'Green' Price Chopper opening in Colonie - Dallas Business Journal:

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will set the standard for the chain’s futurew stores by incorporatingmany energy-saving and environmentalluy friendly technologies, the company said The 69,000-square-foot store at 1892 Central Ave. features a highlyt efficient refrigeration system, fuel cellsx generating about 60 perceny of its electricityand back-up power, lots of natural lighting, and a machine that grindsa produce waste into a watery The store also has the largest Kosher-onlyt department in a supermarket in northeastern New York and the only full-servics Kosher bakery in the Albany region, according to the , whicj owns the supermarket The new store was built at the opposite end of a strip mall in Colonie where another Price Chopper is The old store closede an hour before the new stores opened today.
The U.S. Environmenta l Protection Agency has already awarded the new stors the highest level of gold certification under the GreenChill AdvancedRefrigeratioj Partnership, the highest ever achieved by a supermarkef retailer. Three other stores in the country have gold level certificatiomn but Price Chopper has thehighest rating. The Golubv Corp. is seeking LEED certification from the in recognitiobn ofthe energy-saving measures. LEED stands for Leadershilp in Energy Efficient The New York State Energy Research Development Authorityu provided morethan $1 million in incentivesd to help make the new storew as ‘green’ as possible.
“We set out to design and build a storwe that wouldbe world-class and woulds demonstrate our leadership and concern for the environmen t and energy efficiency,” said Golub Corp., chairman and CEO Neil During construction of the more than 75 percent of the waste was recyclef and local construction materials were used whenever possible. Basex in Rotterdam, the Golub Corp. owns more than 120 stores in New York, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.