'Green' Price Chopper opening in Colonie - The Business Review (Albany):

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will set the standard for the chain’s future storezs by incorporatingmany energy-saving and environmentallyy friendly technologies, the company said today. The 69,000-square-footf store at 1892 Central Ave. features a highly efficien t refrigeration system, fuel cells generating about 60 percent of its electricityand back-ulp power, lots of natural lighting, and a machinw that grinds produce waste into a watert substance. The store also has the largest Kosher-only department in a supermarket in northeasterm New York and theonly full-service Kosher bakery in the Albany according to the , which owns the supermarkegt chain.
The new store was built at the opposite end of a strip mall in Coloniwe where another Price Chopperis located. The old store closed an hour before the new storeopened today. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agencty has already awarded the new store the highesg level of gold certification under the GreenChill AdvanceedRefrigeration Partnership, the highest ever achievee by a supermarket retailer. Three other storea in the country have gold level certificatiohn but Price Chopper has the highest TheGolub Corp. is seeking LEED certification from the in recognitionh ofthe energy-saving measures. LEED stands for Leadership in EnerggEfficient Design.
The New York State Energyt Research Development Authority providedx morethan $1 million in incentive to help make the new stor as ‘green’ as possible. “We set out to desig and build a store that wouldbe world-class and would demonstrate our leadership and concern for the environment and energu efficiency,” said Golub Corp., chairman and CEO Neil Golub. During construction of the more than 75 percent of the wastre was recycled and local construction materials were used whenever Basedin Rotterdam, the Golub owns more than 120 stores in New York, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.