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One of the first completed charging stations using CFI funds opened in September 2024 in Mount Vernon, Washington. With 76 charging ports, it is the largest municipally owned charging station in the country. Leveraging a $12.5 million CFI award along with state and city funding, the City of Mount Vernon was able to create a mixed-use hub with a library, conference center, electric bike charging, transit stop, and other amenities

215 East 68th Street is an approximately 1M+ square foot multifamily building in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Built in 1962 and spanning 32 floors, the building supports tenant heating, cooling, and domestic hot water needs through natural gas boilers and absorption chillers. As a result, the building burns fossil fuels for the entire year, putting the building in Local Law 97 penalty range starting in 2030. Rudin Management plans to retrofit the outdated system with new electric heat recovery chillers to offset natural gas usage and align with New York City’s electrification efforts. The new system eliminates the need for fossil fuel boilers to create cooling and domestic hot water in the summer. The building also intends to install “geo-ready” thermal taps to prepare for a potential future ground loop under the existing parking lot and heat recovery from the 24/7 building exhaust system. The project largely decarbonizes building operations and aligns the building with company-wide sustainability goals.

St. Elizabeth Manor is a 4-story, 80-unit multifamily senior-housing building located at 150 Brielle Avenue in Staten Island, New York. The 61,320 GSF building was constructed in 1994 and has not undergone any major renovations since. Besides utilizing natural gas for space heating and domestic hot water production in the cellar, the rest of the building and all apartments run on electricity. Existing systems and infrastructure are mostly original to the building and nearing the end of their useful lives. The goal is to revive the building by improving the envelope, electrifying heating and hot water systems, installing heat recovery systems for ventilation, and installing wastewater heat recovery systems. Sisters of Charity Housing Development has 17 total buildings in their portfolio which includes 1272 total dwelling units. The owner’s goal is to replicate the above measures in all the buildings that have similar existing conditions, which will impact 804 dwelling units.

418 Fabius St is a multifamily building constructed in the 1950s that is part of Syracuse Housing Authority’s SHA’s James Geddes Development. This housing development is located on the West Side of Syracuse, NY, and comprises a total of 477 dwelling units housing 853 residents, and an estimated 265,000 square feet of construction spread across 35 buildings: 4 high-rise towers and 31 two-story rowhouses. The building selected for this pilot project, 418 Fabius St, is one of the high-rises, spanning seven-stories with a full basement below grade. The building has 52 dwelling units and a community space across 38,840 square feet of gross area, with an “X”-shaped footprint and four wings radiating from a central core.

The goals of the retrofit project are to: Connect the commercial and residential heating, cooling, and domestic hot water thermal energy zones together to enable hydronic-based thermal heat recovery; Replace existing residential and commercial terminal units to enable low-temperature hydronic heating and improve, or maintain, cooling services; Recover energy for, and electrify, loads currently served by fossil fuels (heating and domestic hot water); Reduce construction costs by avoiding the staggering of measure implementationwherever possible; and Minimize negative impacts on operating costs while making substantial carbon emissions reductions.

The retrofit project at 865 East 167th Street is a planned decarbonization for a pre-war, affordable, multifamily building in the Bronx. The 6-story, 55-unit, 30,800 square feet building has no wall insulation, minimal assumed roof insulation, and a poor heating system served by an oil-fired steam boiler in the basement. This retrofit project will entail a full envelope refurbishment, installation of individual heat pumps serving apartments, and the cutting-edge implementation of a wastewater heat recovery system for domestic hot water production. In addition to reducing the whole building energy use and utility costs, this retrofit will improve the safety and comfort of tenants living in the building.

The Heritage, preserved by L+M, showcases a multifamily retrofit project that eliminates fossil fuel usage, improves resident comfort, and minimizes occupant disruption through the use of innovative retrofit methods, materials, and technology. The 34-story, three-building complex , which was built in 1974 next to Central Park in New York City, contains 600 housing units, of which 402 are affordable, with 134 set aside for the formerly unhoused. 

Located in Yonkers, NY, Whitney Young Manor, is a notable affordable housing complex with 195 apartments across 234,000 square feet and 12 stories. Built in 1974, the housing complex is now undergoing a $22 million makeover focusing heavily on decarbonization upgrades. This renovation aims to modernize the buildings by improving insulation and introducing a new heating and cooling system that’s energy efficient. These changes are expected to lower the buildings’ carbon footprint, enhance living conditions, and reduce energy costs. The developer, Paths Development LLC, is leveraging the recapitalization cycle of the property to upgrade its infrastructure and include decarbonization measures to meet its climate goals. 

Noll Apartments, located at 43 Central Avenue, and Melrose Apartments, located at 63 Central Avenue, are neighboring buildings in Brooklyn, New York. The buildings are 6 stories and total 131,865 square feet with 98 affordable apartment units. The decarbonization retrofit planned for these buildings includes a package of measures that will: Combine all mechanical equipment into a single central plant serving both buildings which will facilitate thermal energy recovery, allow for the integration of future decarbonized thermal energy sources, and reduce first- and ongoing maintenance costs. Electrify, and recover energy for, loads currently served by fossil fuels (heating and domestic hot water). Improve the energy efficiency of the buildings by reducing thermal loads through ventilation energy recovery and envelope improvements Reduce construction costs by avoiding the staggering of measure implementation where possible. Creating resilient and sustainable communities are key components of RiseBoro’s mission. The principles of energy efficiency, improved health outcomes, reduced consumption, and responsible use of natural resources are core beliefs of the organization.

Talia Boyd was spending over $300 a month to keep her home just outside Asheville, North Carolina, cool this summer. It was an enormous sum for the single-wide trailer she shares with her baby daughter and teenage son. But now, the air leaks have been sealed, a door has been replaced, and a new heat pump has been installed — all at no cost to Boyd. Her monthly utility bill from Duke Energy has been cut in half, she said.