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LA Mayor Hails New Green Hangar

BURBANK, CA-Platinum Leed-certified hangar is praised as 'world's greenest aviation facility,' while Tony Thompson reveals he is partnering in a $100 million green fund.

By Don Jergler | Updated on December 09, 2008

[IMGCAP(1)]BURBANK, CA-Standing inside a new 60,000-square-foot private aviation hangar unveiled at Bob Hope Airport here on Tuesday, Los Angles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa hailed the platinum LEED certified building as “the greenest aviation facility in the world.”

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.

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