Vancouver firm brings green tech to the pavement

When Bryan Slusarchuk began hunting for an investment in the green tech sector, he never imagined finding one that was quite so open to innovation.
Today his company, Greenscape Capital, is 80 per cent owner of the most environmentally advanced open-air parking lot in North America, which opened last month with United States-based Pro Park as operating partner.
It's a sprawling 4,200-space lot serving the bustling Denver airport and it incorporates virtually every green construction innovation on the books -- water-permeable pavement, contaminated water treatment, solar-electric energy, wind turbines, geothermal heating systems, state of-the-art LED lighting and electric vehicle charging stations.
There are groundbreaking sponsorship deals, an expected robust return on an $18.5-million investment and, most significantly, Slusarchuk anticipates that the Canopy Parking Lot will serve as a demonstration site for similar facilities that could be installed anywhere the demand exists.
He estimates energy consumption is about 30 per cent of what a conventional facility would use -- and since customers are paying the same as they would at a conventional lot, that means more revenue for Greenscape and Pro Park, he said. Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/technology/Vancouver+firm+brings+green+tech+pavement/3950076/story.html#ixzz17lwBqXLE