Greenstate Building

“One of West State Street’s buildings will soon go down for the count and be replaced by a new, modern three-story office building.
The current two-story Greenstate Partners building located at 127 West State St. will give way to a ‘neo-classical (building) with contemporary elements incorporated,’ project developer Robert R. Colbert Jr., a general partner of Greenstate Partners, said Thursday….

The new building, designed by Ithaca architect Jagat P. Sharma, will increase in size from a current base of 2,000 square feet to 6,200 feet, Colbert said, and the total floor space will increase from 4,000 to 20,000 square feet.

The present building, which housed American Demographics until a couple of months ago, is about 20 feet high, Colbert said, while the new structure will be about 45 feet in height.…

According to the developer, the building will feature state-of-the-art heating and air conditioning in every office, marble floors, high ceilings, a glass atrium and interior gardens.

It will also have an elevator, be ‘fully sprinklered,’ and contain operable windows.

‘We’re opening the windows and that’s unheard of around here,’ said Colbert, who called the building ‘the most significant to occur in the central business district since Center Ithaca.’”

“New W. State St. building in the Works,” Ithaca Journal, December 1, 1989, 3.

"Crash, Bang, Boom! Bob Drake operates the hydraulic excavator that is demolishing a building at 127 W State St. Owned by Greenstate Partners, it was home to American Demographics Inc., which will return to the site upon completion of a new structure.” 

Photo Caption, Ithaca Journal, July 10, 1990, 1.

“When Brad Edmondson looks out his window high above State Street, just west of The Commons, he doesn’t just see people scurrying around. 

He sees single-parent householders.

He sees people of Hispanic origin.

He sees people who spend more than 25 percent of their income on rent.

For the editor-in-chief of American Demographics, everyone fits into a niche. And discovering those niches is the way his publication makes its mark in the business world.

‘We’re seeking to uncover the story behind the numbers, not just the numbers themselves,’ Edmondson says in his second-floor office in the new Greenstate Building, 127 W. State St….

‘Census numbers remain the bedrock on which the whole industry and magazines are built,’ says Edmondson who graduated from Cornell University and edited The Ithaca Times before joining American Demographics.”

Kathy Hovis, “Magazine makes sense of the numbers,” Ithaca Journal, July 31, 1991, 7.