Independence Station

Visiting Independence and ‘Station 203’

Written March 6th, 2022 by Hasso Hering

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As a longtime reader, you may recognize this photo. Taken Friday, it is just like one you may have seen here before, on March 30, 2018. But now there seems to be new hope that the building will be finished and the picture will improve.

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Tags: downtown development, Independence, Independence Station, Monmouth Street, riverfront development, Station 203

A new start in Independence

Written March 30th, 2018 by Hasso Hering

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Last Saturday I rode a bike around Independence. I hadn’t been there for a while, and I wanted to see if anything had changed concerning Independence Station, the ill-fated project to build one of the country’s greenest buildings.

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Tags: City of Independence, Independence Station, Keizer Station, Shawn Irvine

You can buy this ‘green’ project

Written May 19th, 2016 by Hasso Hering

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In Independence, they’re still looking at this concrete skeleton in the middle of town. More than a year since I last reported on what was intended as a showcase of sustainability, nothing seems to have happened to the unfinished structure except that it now has a sign saying it’s for sale.

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Tags: green buildings, Independence Station

Sustainability stalls in Independence

Written February 28th, 2015 by Hasso Hering

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Every time I pass through Independence, which is not that often, I am struck by the sight of the concrete skeleton of a three-story building right in the middle of town. It is, as I discovered on the city of Independence’s website and elsewhere on the Internet, a sad reminder of where dreams of “sustainability” […]

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Tags: energy independence, green building, Independence Station, LEED, sustainability