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Brooklyn Developer Builds Following on Blog

The template for setting up a Web site for a new development goes something like this: start with a flashy animated graphic, add a catchy soundtrack and paste a somewhat vague slogan across the page. Then wait for prospective buyers to roll in.
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Brooklyn Affordable Housing Development to Install the Largest Residential Photovoltaic System in New York City

The Hudson Companies Inc. (Hudson) announced today that the 80,500 watt solar electric photovoltaic (PV) system to be installed at Dumont Green, their 176-unit affordable housing development in the East New York section of Brooklyn will be the largest installation of its kind on a residential building in New York City. Direct funding of the system was provided by the Solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) from the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, NYSERDA, and Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC Solar Initiative.
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Pratt Designers Furnish a Home

While no one lives in these apartments, a lot of thought, preparation, and creativity went into creating these potential homes. Hudson Developers invited Pratt Institute alumni, faculty, and students from the architecture, interior design, industrial design, and fine arts departments to furnish two model apartments in Third + Bond, a new residential development in Brooklyn.
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Hudson Secures $43M for Green East New York Development

Hudson Development received $43 million in financing last week for an East New York project that will be the first affordable housing in the outer boroughs to have solar panels. Construction of the 176-unit building, going up at 1490 Dumont Avenue in Brooklyn, is slated to begin July 7, with completion expected by spring 2011.
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The First Knight of Brooklyn Real Estate

Before there was today’s Brooklyn, with its thriving cultural scene and the blossoming crop of new residences, there was the Brooklyn Real Estate Roundtable. Through debate and luncheons, the Roundtable concentrated the minds that shape Brooklyn as we know it. Its chairman is David Kramer.
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