URBANICA NAMED AS A BOSTON GLOBE GAME CHANGER

Boston Globe Game Changers Magazine Cover, July 15 2014

Urbanica was selected by Boston Globe to be this year's "Game Changer", a designation for any corporation (private or public), academic institution, health care provider, nonprofit, or startup with a Massachusetts presence in 2013 that accomplished something remarkable or cool. According to Mark Porthier, the Boston Globe business editor, the inaugural 56 Game Changers are the embodiment of that definition, and the Globe is eager to highlight their tremendous contributions to the economy and Massachusetts’ status as a hotbed of innovation.

Urbanica was selected based on its accomplishment at 226-232 Highland Street E+ Townhouses, where the firm turned a vacant lot in Roxbury into four energy-efficient homes that generate more power than they consumed. The $1.5 million project on Highland Street was Boston’s first energy-positive residential building and inspired the city to want to build dozens of similar carbon-free units.

“It was a prototype to understand how the technology works and determine market demand,” said Kamran Zahedi, president of Urbanica. “It was a good experience for us and now we’re trying to bring that kind of housing to different neighborhoods.”

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