Urban Gardening on a Grand Scale

By Michael Nolan

The New York Times carried an article on April 20th – no doubt in homage to Earth Day – that featured the story of how one developer in the Big Apple is helping to bring nature back to the city.

Tishman Speyer, who bought the huge Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village apartment complexes from MetLife in 2006, is now spearheading one of the largest landscaping projects in the area. According to Speyer’s lead gardener Read the rest of this entry »