{"id":1004099956,"date":"2014-07-07T06:31:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T14:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004099956"},"modified":"2022-12-07T18:17:08","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T02:17:08","slug":"july-issue-greening-walgreens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/july-issue-greening-walgreens\/","title":{"rendered":"JULY ISSUE: Greening Walgreens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Brad Berton, Contributing Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/07\/WAG-netzero-ext-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1004099960\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/july-issue-greening-walgreens\/wag-netzero-ext-3\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/07\/WAG-netzero-ext-3.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"800,536\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"WAG-netzero-ext-3\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/07\/WAG-netzero-ext-3.jpg?w=800\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1004099960\" alt=\"WAG-netzero-ext-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/07\/WAG-netzero-ext-3.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/07\/WAG-netzero-ext-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/07\/WAG-netzero-ext-3.jpg?resize=300,201 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2014\/07\/WAG-netzero-ext-3.jpg?resize=768,515 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Julius Caesar\u2019s infamous fate notwithstanding, the Ides of March represents quite the fond memory for the brain trust behind the Walgreens drugstore mega-chain\u2019s envelope-pushing facilities sustainability push.<\/p>\n<p>That is because on Saturday, March 15, its new facility\u2014billed as the nation\u2019s first net-zero energy retail store\u2014for the first time actually posted net-zero performance for an entire day. More specifically, the solar photovoltaic array atop the Evanston, Ill., store\u2019s 14,820-square-foot roof, along with modest output from its 35-foot-high twin wind turbines, generated 68 kilowatt-hours (kWh) beyond the facility\u2019s electricity consumption.<\/p>\n<p>And in the wake of similar performances on several subsequent days, even more encouraging news reached the facilities team, including director of sustainability Jamie Meyers, facilities development vice president Thomas Connolly and mechanical engineering manager Jason Robbins. The redeveloped store, a short jaunt from publicly traded Walgreen Co.\u2019s Deerfield headquarters, had achieved net-zero status over the entire month of April.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digital.commercialsearch.com\/news\/publication\/?i=214831&amp;p=42\">July 2014 issue\u00a0<\/a>of\u00a0<em>CPE<\/em>. Access is free!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walgreens has opened a prototype net-zero energy retail store \u2013 the first such store in the nation. Here\u2019s a close look at what went into the Evanston, Ill., property, and what they\u2019re getting out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1401,"featured_media":1004099960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21749,21786],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1004099956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retail","category-sustainability"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v24.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>JULY ISSUE: Greening Walgreens - Commercial Property Executive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/july-issue-greening-walgreens\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"JULY ISSUE: Greening Walgreens\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Walgreens has opened a prototype net-zero energy retail store \u2013 the first such store in the nation. 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