Mill Basin Plaza - 2nd Address

How does Mill Basin Plaza - 2nd Address compare with other strip mall buildings in New York City?

The latest disclosures cover 215 strip mall buildings in New York City, out of 48,310 buildings citywide. Its site EUI of 1.6 kBtu/ft² is about 99% below the average of 111.0 kBtu/ft² — it uses less energy per square foot than the typical building in that group. Its emissions intensity of 0.1 kgCO₂e/ft² is about 99% below the group average of 8.8 kgCO₂e/ft².

At 79,500 sq ft, it is about 18% above the average floor area of 67,251 sq ft for those buildings. It was built in 1991, 19 years later than the group's average year built (1972). Across all 24 jurisdictions BuildingCensus covers, the 1,607 strip mall buildings average an ENERGY STAR score of 68 and a site EUI of 83.1 kBtu/ft².

What does a site EUI of 1.6 kBtu/ft² mean?

Site energy-use intensity (EUI) is the energy a building uses on site in a year divided by its floor area, in thousand Btu per square foot — lower is more efficient. Mill Basin Plaza - 2nd Address's 1.6 kBtu/ft² across 79,500 sq ft works out to about 0.1 billion Btu (37 MWh-equivalent) in 2024. Its source EUI of 1.7 kBtu/ft² also counts the energy lost generating and delivering that power, which is why it is higher. The disclosure also reports 1,265 therms of natural gas for the year.

Which law requires Mill Basin Plaza - 2nd Address to report its energy use?

Mill Basin Plaza - 2nd Address reports under Local Law 84 (LL84), the legal basis of New York City's Energy and Water Data Disclosure program, which publishes each covered building's annual benchmarking results. The record shown here is the report-year 2024 disclosure (source record nyc:35562289:2024). Under Local Law 97, buildings over 25,000 sq ft face carbon caps with fines of $268 per metric ton of CO₂e over the limit, phasing in from 2024.