Owner: Renewable energy will set renewed hotel apart

Architect-developer Bruce Becker proclaims that his ongoing restoration of a historic building in New Haven, Conn., will result in the nation’s first net-zero (fossil-fuel-free) hotel. “You have to reuse, recycle and reinvent existing buildings to be truly sustainable,” says Becker, whose company paid $1.2 million for the landmark completed in 1970 by noted Brutalist architect Marcel Breuer.