Renters want to be green, too, and developers respond - Finance & Commerce

Composting food waste is an eco-conscious activity typically associated with single-family home neighborhoods rather than apartment complexes. But composting will be easy for residents of the green-centric apartment complex being built at 701 2nd St. N. in Minneapolis, which will open later this year.

Next to the chute that carries residents’ trash to the building’s ground floor, a second chute is designated for organic food waste, to be picked up by a trash hauler for composting.

It’s one of a lengthy list of green features incorporated in the 100-unit building being developed by local developers Curt Gunsbury and T.E. Miller. Green design and construction has become the rule rather than the exception, according to local apartment developers and architects.

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