How does brown plus gold equal green At Symphony Park, that equation is coming true.

The aggressive clean-up and remediation of this brownfield site, along with ultra-green development plans that have earned Symphony Park LEED®-ND Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), are making this emerging downtown community one of the country's best examples of land recycling. The remediation, funded by the City of Las Vegas during excavation activities by private developers, is reclaiming once unusable land and making way for the city's most impressive collection of important civic, medical and cultural facilities that together, create Symphony Park.

The site became contaminated through 70-plus years of use as a rail yard for Union Pacific Railroad. Today, this brownfield is going green through a carefully orchestrated and coordinated clean-up. Newland Communities and individual project developers are working with the Nevada Department of Conservation & Natural Resources, Division of Environmental Protection and the city of Las Vegas to scrub the excavated soil and remove groundwater contaminants deposited at the site - as construction on each parcel starts.

As a Gold certified project under stage 2 by the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) through its LEED®-ND (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Neighborhood Design) green building rating system, Symphony Park will embrace sustainable development in many ways:
• The entire community will be walkable with access to efficient public transportation.
• Recycled materials of all kinds will be used as countertops, flooring, tile and other materials in Symphony Park buildings as all individual buildings must be LEED certified.
• Significant electric and gas energy savings will be realized at Symphony Park with alternative energy sources.
• Hyper-efficient fixtures will help reduce the consumption of potable indoor water.
• And energy efficient rooftops will significantly reduce the heat island impact of conventional development practices-so important in Las Vegas summers.