Cleveland's Greenest Building

Forest City Apartments is a catalyst for environmentally-responsible living. The Enterprise Green Community establishes new standards for affordable urban living—considered design, environmentally engaged and community focused for healthy living.

The historic Forest City Savings & Trust and Seymour Block buildings are renovated to consider all aspects of sustainable living, from site location and neighborhood integration to site improvements and increased energy efficiency like water conservation and selective building materials. Forest City Apartments offers a healthy living environment that extends to its building operations, maintenance and resident engagement programs.

Green Features
• Redevelopment site
• Compact development 47.5 dwelling units/acre
• Access to transit
• Access to fresh food
• Low flow plumbing fixtures
• High performance insulation (open cell spray foam R-14 continuous)
• Solar array 75% offset of residential energy consumption
• High efficiency HVAC system: VRF
• Indoor air quality: ERV for continuous ventilation
• No/low VOC paints, sealants, etc.
• LED lighting with occupancy sensors in common areas

Enterprise Green Communities is a nonprofit that improves communities and people's lives by making well-designed homes affordable. Since 2004, Enterprise has led the effort through Enterprise Green Communities to integrate green practices into the affordable housing development sector, investing $3.9 billion to create or preserve more than 127,000 green, healthy homes while transforming policies at the state, local and national level.