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Gish Apartments, San Jose, California
Gish Apartments, a stylish 35-unit complex offering affordable housing to tenants, aims at improving the energy efficiency that would help residents in the years to come through reduced utility costs, and healthy indoor environments, especially beneficial in the 13 units devoted to tenants living with developmental disabilities. The building is built on a rehabilitated brownfield site and its common area receives 30% of its electricity from a rooftop photovoltaic system. Mostly, locally produced materials and environmentally preferable products have been used.
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