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Jeffrey S. Abramson is a partner in The Tower Companies (www.towercompanies.com), a three-generation, award winning, family-owned real estate development company located in Rockville, MD, the largest Green Developer in the Washington, DC area, and one of the largest purchasers of Green Energy in the country, buying 100% wind energy for their electrical energy needs. The Tower Companies is one of only ten carbon-neutral companies in the U.S.
Mr. Abramson is the inspiration behind Tower Companies award winning industry projects, which continue to garner the company numerous city, county, state, and national awards. Among them are: 2008 Green Corporate Initiative Award, Multi-Housing News, 2008 Spirit of Free Enterprise Award, Montgomery County Chamber of Commerce, 2008 Green Company of the Year, Washington Business Journal, 2008 Corporate Green Leader of the Year, Washingtonian Magazine, 2007 Business of the Year Award, from the DC Chamber of Commerce and 2006 Leadership Award for Green Power Purchasing, from the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy, alongside other national leaders such as Toyota Motorcars, Whole Foods, and Johnson & Johnson.
Abramson's industry-leading projects include 2000 Tower Oaks Boulevard (www.toweroaks.com), a 200,000 SF, Designed to be LEED Platinum office building, and the largest commercial application of Fortune-Creating(sm) architecture (www.vedicarchitecture.org) design principals in the world, which enhance its' tenants' health, productivity, and success. His vision incorporates Vedic architectural design standards in order to maximize and protect our most precious resources - our workers and the environment.
Other Tower award-winning projects include: The Tower Building (www.towerbuilding.com), an ENERGY STAR and LEED EB Silver building, named 2003 Green Office Building of the Year by the Apartment and Office Building Association (AOBA); and The Millennium Building, (www.millenniumbuilding.com), ENERGY STAR and LEED EB Silver and one of the first green office building in Washington, DC and Blair Towns, (www.blairtowns.com), nationally recognized by the U.S. Green Building Council as America's first LEED-certified multi-family rental housing community in the United States. In 2009, Tower begins one of the largest LEED renovations in the U.S., The Blairs - 1,400 apartment units on a 27-acre live-work-play complex in Silver Spring, MD.
A top international authority on green building technology, The Tower Companies consistently set new standards for green development in business, residential, retail and mixed-use real estate environments evidenced by case studies of their most successful projects; published by The Urban Land Institute, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and U.S. Department of Energy.
The Tower Companies diverse portfolio includes more than 4 million square feet of office buildings, office parks, 1,400 apartments, regional malls, residential communities, lifestyle centers, and hotels within the National Capital area. Of this total, one million square feet are Green or sustainable projects, and another 2.5 million square feet are in the planning stages.
Mr. Abramson is a former member of the Board of Trustees of the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. In that capacity he co-chaired "Big and Green: Sustainable Buildings for the 21st Century." He is a sponsor of their new exhibit, "Green Communities".
Additionally, Mr. Abramson is a member of the Board of Trustees of The David Lynch Foundation (www.davidlynchfoundation.org) which provides scholarships throughout the United States for learning the stress reduction technique of Transcendental Meditation. He is also a Board member for Maharishi University of Management (www.mum.edu) in Fairfield, Iowa, an award-winning university specializing in Consciousness-Based Education.
Mr. Abramson has organized and funded extensive medical research in the areas of cancer, cardiovascular diseases, reduction in health care utilization, preventative health care, educational programs for at-risk youth, and conflict resolution in the areas of terrorism and crime. His investment in Transcendental Meditation (TM) research has resulted in others furthering research - including a $25 million National Institutes of Health TM study -- resulting in over 30 published reports on the subject. Mr. Abramson provides scholarship support for Washington area inner-city students to learn Transcendental Meditation in order that they may be able to concentrate on learning and achieving, instead of on the other challenges they encounter each day.
In October 2007, Mr. Abramson announced his intention to build a Tower of Invincibility in the Nation's Capital as a monument to a new science of peace to safeguard our nation. (www.towerofinvincibilitydc.org).
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