After 60 years of suburban development, the GREEN revolution is changing our hearts and minds about our built environment. GREEN growth, smart growth, sustainable growth, new urbanism and urban infill are becoming part of everyday conversations for GREEN advocates, developers, builders, property managers, planners, architects, real estate investors, attorneys, accountants and other trades and professions involved in buildings and development.

GREEN AGENT is passionate about the need to change our patterns of development and the present built environment. As a real estate broker and attorney, GREEN AGENT sees not just the development possibilities with sustainable design, mixed-use residential projects and higher density developments, but also the lifestyle benefits to our entire population as a result of changing our development patterns and reclaiming our downtown neighborhoods.

With walkable urban neighborhoods, dedicated urban bike paths, mass transit and transit oriented development, we become less dependent on cars for simple tasks, entertainment and socializing. By creating lifestyles that emphasize walking or biking, we become less dependent on foreign oil, lessen carbon dioxide emissions into the air and create healthier lifestyles for ourselves and future generations.

GREEN AGENT, having just received the new National Association of Realtors' (NAR) GREEN designation and with the assembly of a GREEN TEAM, can assist those interested in developing and remodeling with smart growth, green growth, sustainability or energy efficiency in mind. GREEN AGENT has the resources in this website and elsewhere that can take your idea, project, development or current building from its present status to a usgbc (United States Green Building Council) LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) PLATINUM designation.

GREEN AGENT can find that brownfield site or underutilized property for a project that conforms with GREEN growth, smart growth, mixed use residential or higher density objectives in an urban or suburban setting. Many of the local economic development departments are making the necessary changes to allow these projects to become a reality and flourish with changes in zoning, master plans and the creation of economic development authorities who are increasingly interested in GREEN principles and sustainable environments. Further incentives include tax abatements, tax increment financing, historic tax credits, new tax credits, facade improvement programs and other financial incentives to remake their downtown into viable live-work-play environments for their residents and visitors. Contact GREEN AGENT for more information.