Korte Builds Green St. Louis HQ

The Korte Company will be moving into its new facility, Highlands Plaza Two, at 5700 Oakland Avenue in St. Louis. The office building, a Design-Build project is located on the campus of The Highlands Office Park, a mixed-use campus developed by Balke Brown Associates. The Korte Company will occupy the second floor of the four-story building, which will include almost 70,000 square feet of space.  The ground floor will house retail space, while the remaining three floors will be utilized for office space.

The facility is expected to qualify as a Silver-level LEED certified building and incorporates a number of low-impact, sustainable features including; the utilization of rapidly renewable casework composed of bamboo and wheat board, low VOC paints and adhesives, as well as high recycled content carpet. The lighting system has been designed to consume 1 watt of power per square foot of office space by maximizing natural daylight harvesting from the continuous north facing ribbon window and open office floor plan.

The building’s exterior face will feature a curving façade of continuous bands of windows and aluminum panels.  The west façade will have a sloping glass curtainwall that is the mirror image of the east wall of the Plaza One building and together flank the main entry into the office park.  The balance of the building's exterior will be a combination of glass, brick and exterior insulated stucco.  There will be a two level under parking garage attached on the south side with the upper parking deck level with the first floor of the building.
 
 
 

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