Sally Wilson, CB Richard Ellis' senior vice president and globaldirector of Environmental Strategy, represented USGBC along withPat Marr and Chau Leung, also at CBRE. In addition, CBRE's ProjectManagement Team, led by Chris Brown and Dale Martin, assisted onsite selection and pre-construction planning. They will representUSGBC during the construction phase of the project as well.

Wilson says that USGBC needed the additional space toaccommodate the new staff hires it is planning to make. There wereno expansion options at 1800 Massachusetts Ave. USGBC "experiencedextreme growth that outpaced all expectations after it relocated toits current headquarters," she says in a prepared statement.

USGBC expects to achieve a LEED Platinum rating for the buildout of the interior space of its new space. CBRE's brokerage teamand project management group, as well as USGBC's architect,Envision Design and its engineers, GHT, provided the necessaryanalysis of the building's potential to pursue this level of LEEDcertification. USGBC will occupy its new space in March 2009. Untilthen it will occupy for a short period of time 15,000-sf at 1919 MSt.