March 5th, 2011 - BOMA Boston hosted it’s 22nd Annual Casino Night Benefit at the Seaport Hotel.  The $90,000 that was raised at the benefit went to the following charities and organizations: City Year Boston, My Brother’s Keeper, South Shore Habitat for Humanity, Heading Home, Massachusetts Hospital School Foundation, and the BOMA Boston Education Scholarship.

Cityscapes was a High Roller Sponser for the event.  We provided beautiful Monte Carlo themed table arrangements made up of white tulips, white calla lilies, and white roses.  Unique accents such as black peacock feathers, gold beads, over-sized playing cards, gold silk table overlays, hat and dollar shaped confetti, and a custom living wall were also incorporated into the design.  Please enjoy the following images from the event.

Beautiful Tulip Arrangements

Second to the Right: Janice Goodman (owner of Cityscapes) with the BOMA Committee

Custom “Monte Carlo” Living Wall

Back Right: John Higgins and Amy Walker both Sales Representatives at Cityscapes

Simple and Sophisticated Calla Arrangements

Janice Goodman with Cityscapes client Kelli Ployer (second to right) of CB Richard Ellis

Suzanne Marchand of Cityscapes with Steve Howard

For more images from the event please click here:

https://picasaweb.google.com/GreaterBostonRealEstateBoard/2011BOMABenefitCasinoNightMonteCarlo#

March 17th, 2011 – Cityscapes newest employee Denise McGee spent the day spreading St. Patrick’s Day cheer throughout Boston by dressing head to toe in green gear and passing out green carnations and beads to our clients as she maintained their plants!

February 15, 2011 – The exterior landscaping season is approaching quickly, and Cityscapes is getting ready to beautify properties all around Boston!  We will be beginning our Spring Rotations come March using a gorgeous mix of season appropriate flowers such as pansies, hydrangeas, osteospermums, tulips, daffodils, and hyacinths that are available in a wide range of colors.  Take a look at a couple of our past Spring installations.

If you are interested in Cityscapes premier exterior landscaping services  Contact Us !

From November 17th -19th, 2010 Cityscapes Living Walls were on display at the Seaport World Trade Center for Build Boston’s 1st Annual Innovation Pavilion.  Our Living walls were chosen as one of Boston’s most cutting edge innovative building products.  Each of the products that were selected have only been in the market for 3 years or less. Build Boston is the Northeast’s largest regional convention and tradeshow for engineers, architects, contractors, interior designers, and other industry professionals with an annual 15,000 attendees each year. Below are some images of our living walls that were on display at the event.

For more information about Build Boston: www.buildboston.com

On November 18th BOMA Boston held their annual Toby & Industry Awards at the Boston Sheraton Hotel. During the ceremony, awards were given in 20 different categories for Real Estate Excellence. Janice Goodman, President and Owner of Cityscapes, won Affiliate Member of the Year! Take a look at some of the pictures and check out this great video: TOBY Awards 2010 from the event!

Janice Goodman holding her award!

Jen Berube and Amy Walker of Cityscapes and Kathleen McCarthy of Manulife

The Cityscapes Crew from the left: Joe Giansiracusa, Alyce Crowley, David Clifford, Chris Goodman, Janice Goodman, Jen Berube, and Amy Walker

For more photos and information regarding the event, click here www.gbreb.com/boma.aspx

September 28th, 2010 - Janice Goodman helped teach students from Cambridgeport School in Cambridge, MA how to plant a 7 foot Edible Living Wall.  The children used swiss chard, peppers, cabbages and rosemary as their choices for the edible plants for the wall.  Cityscapes loaned the 7 foot frame to the school for a week so they could use it to display at the CitySprouts School Garden Celebration at the Tobin School this past Saturday.  Please read the article from Cambridge Day by Monica Velgos and click on the posted article links below for more information and some images from the event.

More Links:

http://cportgarden.blogspot.com/

http://www.cambridgeportpto.org/

On April 27 ^th at the Bronx County Court House in New York, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. together with Janice Goodman, President of Cityscapes in Boston, George Irwin, CEO of Green Living Technologies in New York, and Steve Ritz, teacher at Discovery High School in the Bronx, NY, presented Discovery High School students with their Nationally Recognized Employment Certifications in a ceremony highlighting the youngest citizens in America to have completed an extensive green roof and wall certification program.

From the Left: Presentors Steve Ritz, Ruben Diaz Jr., George Irwin, and Janice Goodman at the ceremony.

Janice Goodman, had contracted Green Living Technologies to train and certify her key staff members as green wall and green roof installers. While working out the details of the training, George Irwin and Jan Goodman had decided to fund this training and certification (via scholarships) to several outstanding horticulture students – two from Silver Lake Regional in Kingston and ten from the Discovery High School in the Bronx. Thirteen Cityscapes’ employees also earned their certifications.  The training took place on February 26th and 27th at Cityscapes’ office and greenhouses.

The certification will give these students a chance to get ahead and employed anywhere in the green industry having completed a rigorous academic training session and completing a professional installation to the satisfaction of the leader to the industry who also has college programs, workforce development, and other training initiatives.

The concept of growing good food, good jobs and good citizens by tapping into one of our greatest wasted resources – urban youth – came from Steve Ritz, a teacher with an impressive dedication to his students and a track record of achievement. At his current teaching position at the Discovery High School in the Bronx, he is working with students in one of the most challenging environments in New York City. Ritz just oversaw the installation of a living, edible green wall that was donated by Green Living Technologies.  He was also the sole recipient of the 2010 US EPA Award, the highest award given to a citizen from the EPA. 

The students from Discovery High School and Silverlake High School along with Jan Goodman, Steve Ritz and George Irwin.

To celebrate the 40th Birthday of Earth Day, Cityscapes provided Boston Properties with a state of the art, stainless steel, vertical Living Wall.  It was showcased in the Center Court of the Boston Prudential Center from April 12th through April 22nd.

Cityscapes Inc teamed up with EZ Care Technologies of Saugus, MA to create this stunning living wall using EZ Care’s unique labor saving Water Grip Growing Media which increases plant stability and water retention. 

Janice Goodman of Cityscapes and George Irwin of Green Living Technologies teamed up on February 26th – 27th to provide ten students from Discovery High School in the Bronx, NY, two students from Silver Lake High School in Kingston, MA, and Cityscapes employees with an extensive two day training session to become Green Roof and Green Wall Certified.  The training was led by George Irwin (below) and the venue was provided by Cityscapes up in our gorgeous Greenhouse.

Together we designed and built a beautiful 6′ x 8′ green wall with the Cityscapes leaf logo incorporated into it!  We chose 4″ schefflera arboricola, philodendron brazil and philodendron neon as the foliage to use in our wall.  Please take a look at the following images of the wall-in-progress during the: planting, installation, and the stunning final result.

To see more of Green Living Technology’s work go to www.agreenroof.com.

The Plantscape Industry Alliance (PIA) awarded Cityscapes with a “2009 Award of Excellence” in the Special Events & Holiday category for our Brookfield Properties, 53 State, Holiday 2008 Installation! This awards program is held each year to recognize excellence and professionalism in the interior plantscaping industry.

Jan Goodman, president and owner of Cityscapes, made the journey out to Las Vegas on October 1st to attend the 2009 Calscape Expo to receive the award.  During her time at Calscape she also did a presentation about focusing on how to make your company stand out in a crowd.  Some of the key points she addressed were: Team Building and Management Empowerment, Designing Outside the Box, and Green Building Marketing.

                         Amy Gallagher and Jan Goodman presenting the award to Amanda Welch and Steve Plagg of Brookfield Properties

 For more information on PIA or the annual Calscape Expo click here www.piagrows.org