HEB opens first ‘green’ store in Houston market

HOUSTON Grocery chain HEB has announced the opening of a new “green” store in the Houston area.

Ground was broken at the HEB Bunker Hill stores at Interstate 10 and Bunker Hill, in the Houston market, on Friday. The company has said that this new location is HEB’s first LEED-certified storefront in the area. The building was crafted using recycled materials and all appliances and hardware installed meet strict energy efficiency standards. Items such as LED light bulbs were used in place of traditional bulbs in places like food freezers. The freezers are also set with devices that trigger the light bulbs only when a customer opens the door.

HEB said that the store was also designed to use 25 percent the amount of water used to run the average HEB store.