There's no known competition for the world's greenest aviation facilities, but LA's mayor spoke with pride about the $17 million hangar, saying the facility at 3030 N. Clybourn Ave. on the west side of Bob Hope Airport is a "model for the city, the nation and the world."

[IMGCAP(2)]Villaraigosa, who was part of a public presentation of Hangar 25, which its designers are calling "the world's most sustainable aircraft hangar," stood in front of a Boeing 737 business jet that was pulled inside the hangar for a public unveiling ceremony and plugged into the facility's self-sustaining energy grid.

Villaraigosa was flanked by Rick Fedrizzi, president and founding chairman of the US Green Building Council, Andy Meyers, president of Hangar 25 developer Duarte, CA-based Shangri-La Construction and commercial real estate maverick Tony Thompson, chairman and CEO of Irvine-based Thompson National Properties.

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