Railroad revives historic freight shed.

• Author: Pounds, Nancy
• Position: RAILROADS

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James Kubitz, vice president for real estate and facilities at the Alaska Railroad, stands in the center of the 800-foot-long, 36,000-square-foot Alaska Railroad freight shed built in 1941, that will be the first historic building certified under the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Program. The timber-frame building's interior wood walls will be retained. (Inset photo: grafitti on an interior wall tells the tale of one worker.) After renovation is completed in the summer of 2009, it will be leased...