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The state’s first green McDonald’s restaurant will open on July 14 at 1299 Kildaire Farm Road in Cary.
Some of the green highlights are:
- Use of solatubes and LED lighting fixtures designed to use 97 percent natural light during the day
- Highly efficient, energy and water-saving restroom and kitchen fixtures
- Dedicated parking spaces for hybrid vehicles and plug-in charging stations for electric vehicles
- Table and decor walls incorporating rapidly renewable materials like sunflower seed board, wheat board, bamboo and kirei board
- Some recycled building materials
- Drought tolerant landscape plants
- Energy Efficiency Education Dashboard in dining area informing guests about the economic and environmental benefits of the building
The "green" Cary McDonald’s joins only two other locations nationwide in the McDonald’s family recognized as green restaurants. The first opened in Savannah, Ga., in 2007, and the second opened in Chicago last year.
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