Green Elements NorthPark is a clean canvas. Its new infrastructure and build-to-suit design and planning allow for updates and innovations with the future in mind. The future is green building, green space and green elements. The NorthPark Partners have considered these elements from the beginning and created a mixed-use development with these elements in mind. LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) is a Green Building Rating nationally accepted as a benchmark for design, construction, and operation of high performance green buildings. LEED requirements encourage a whole-building approach to sustainable projects that incorporated five key areas of human and environmental health. Sustainable site development Water savings Energy efficiency Materials selection Indoor environment quality Thus far, all of NorthPark’s tenants are LEED certified, including Express Scripts and Vatterott College. This is due in part to NorthPark incorporating green elements that have helped pave the way for LEED requirements. Great Rivers Greenway Not only has NorthPark planned for green buildings, it has also integrated green space throughout the mixed-use development. NorthPark’s partnership with Great Rivers Greenway has created a system of parks and trails that offer places to relax in a natural setting. This includes The Maline Creek greenway and renovations to Ramona Lake Park that currently exists within the park. Great Rivers Greenway, formerly known as the Metropolitan Park and Recreation District, is committed to a clean, green and connected St. Louis region. To achieve this goal, the organization is developing The River Ring, an interconnected system of greenways, parks and trails. Greenways are open space connectors linking parks, residential areas, civic amenities, commercial areas and other institutions and locations to one another.