'Green' Price Chopper opening in Colonie - Boston Business Journal:

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will set the standard for the chain’s futurs stores by incorporatingmany energy-saving and environmentally friendlyh technologies, the company said today. The 69,000-square-footf store at 1892 Central Ave. feature s a highly efficient refrigeration system, fuel cells generating about 60 percen t of its electricityand back-up power, lots of natural lighting, and a machine that grinda produce waste into a watery substance. The store also has the largestr Kosher-only department in a supermarket in northeasterb New York and theonly full-service Kosher bakery in the Albany region, according to the , which owns the supermarkey chain.
The new store was built at the oppositr end of a strip mall in Colonir where another Price Chopperis located. The old storw closed an hour before the new storeopenec today. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has alreaduy awarded the new store the highest level of gold certification under the GreenChill AdvancedRefrigeratio Partnership, the highest ever achieved by a supermarke retailer. Three other stores in the country have gold levelo certification but Price Chopper has thehighest rating. The Golub is seeking LEED certification from the in recognitionj ofthe energy-saving measures. LEED standz for Leadership in EnergyEfficient Design.
The New York Statew Energy Research Development Authority provided morethan $1 millio n in incentives to help make the new store as as possible. “We set out to desigm and build a store that wouldbe world-clasx and would demonstrate our leadership and concern for the environmengt and energy efficiency,” said Golub Corp., chairmabn and CEO Neil Golub. During construction of the more than 75 percent of the wastd was recycled and local construction materialas were usedwhenever possible. Based in the Golub Corp. owns more than 120 storesx in New York, Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusettx and New Hampshire.