Green Light District

On a former brownfield site across the river from downtown Boston, a renovated turn-of-the-century lithography factory trades in carbon copies for a lighter carbon footprint.

Ask any town-proud Bostonian the correct way to decipher John Hancock Building’s chromatic beacon, and they’ll likely recite:

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