Today, two of our Courtyard hotels are making eco-history. Our Courtyard Portland City Center is receiving it’s official Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) – Gold certification plaque from the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), and the Courtyard Chevy Chase, which is also a LEED-Gold candidate and expected to receive its certification by the end of the year, will celebrate its grand opening. This is a momentous occasion for these two hotels as they are the “greenest” hotel in the Marriott system of 3,200 hotels worldwide.

The event will be attended by VIPs at both locations. In Chevy Chase, Marriott chairman and CEO Bill Marriott will attend, as well as the chief operating officer of the USGBC, Chris Smith; Montgomery County, Md., exeuctive, Ike Leggett and Courtyard vice president and global brand manager, Brian King. And, in Portland, the city’s mayor, Sam Adams, and the senior vice president of LEED for the USGBC, Scot Horst, will attend.

These two hotels will hold their event simultaneously and they will be broadcast via global webcast at www.courtyardgreencoast2coast.com. It will start at 2 p.m. Eastern / 11 a.m. Pacific and last approximately one hour. We hope you’ll tune in and watch online as these hotels celebrate their tremendous accomplishment.

For more information about these two hotels and their green elements, as well as Marriott International’s green initiatives, click here.

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