Australia: Office car parks turning into farms
Industrial, retail and offices assets are now being inspected by owners for their potential to offer green''living'' walls, community gardens and greenhouses.
Pat Barrett, director investment analyst at the UBS Property Securities Fund, said ''green walls" or vertical gardens are quite a common sight, as seen at Broadway's One Central Park, Sydney, but the next step in green developments could be "produce walls" or vertical farms.
Mr Barrett said retailers could take their fresh food campaign to another level, literally, by growing fresh produce on their roof, perhaps greenhouses alongside the solar panels.
And car parks could be converted to massive urban greenhouses.
Read more at The Sydney Morning Herald (Carolyn Cummins)