In early 2021, Lotus had the opportunity to work on a small project with the Urban Land Conservancy (ULC), a nonprofit development organization that focuses on projects that benefit the whole community, such as affordable housing and below-market commercial space for nonprofits. We met with a core team from ULC to help them to define their goals and next steps for embedding sustainability into their operation.
Building off of these new goals, Lotus is now helping ULC develop an implementation plan for the sustainability goals and strategies defined in January 2021. Lotus is developing green leasing language and policies, internal office sustainability practices, a sustainability scoring rubric for RFPs, tenant energy use education toolkit, and sustainability language and procedures for a material and vendor procurement policy. Lotus is excited to continue working with ULC to grow its sustainability policies and procedures.