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The Avalon Achieves World's Second LEED Certification for an Existing Hotel BuildingPlacing it among exclusive company on an international scale, Portland's Avalon Hotel & Spa has achieved the Northwest's first LEED certification of an existing hotel building.
The Avalon, a luxury boutique hotel and spa, joins the ranks of only nine other hotels in the world to have achieved LEED certification and is the second existing hotel building in the world to receive the U.S. Green Building Council's (USGBC) coveted Silver rating.
The Avalon is located in Portland, Ore., a location that is consistently ranked as the greenest city in America, with 43 buildings certified to the USGBC's LEED standards.
It was the first city in the nation to adopt a Global Warming Action Plan to reduce emissions and nearly half of its power comes from renewable sources, making Portland the perfect location for the Northwest's only LEED certified existing hotel building.
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