The 428

The 428 is a five-story office building consisting of approximately 60,000 square feet (excluding the lower level), with an average floor plate of 12,864 square feet, located in the heart of downtown St. Paul. This building originally opened in 1955 as a three-story F.W. Woolworth department store. The 428 opened in the Fall of 2018 as a repurposed midcentury modern design office building focused on health, wellness, and sustainability. The 428 is the first building to be awarded both WELL Gold Certification and LEED Silver Certification for Core and Shell in the region and was the first USGBC Building Health Leadership Award recipient in the Country. This building is more than office space. The 428 brings together wellness and environmental elements proven to create healthier, happier people who are more engaged and productive at work.

The WELL Building Standard is a performance-based system for buildings and interior spaces that improves the nutrition, fitness, mood, and sleep patterns of its occupants utilizing seven basic concepts, with an ROI for companies and organizations. This offers a meaningful return on investment in terms of the tenant’s personnel costs. LEED, or Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is a third-party verification that a building was designed and built using strategies aimed at reducing energy and water usage, promoting better indoor air quality, and improving quality of life.

AMENITIES:
Rooftop patio with a variety of seating
Indoor bike storage
Bicycle storage and repair station
Shower and locker facilities
Wellworth coworking on fifth floor
Skyway connection through The Golden Rule Building
High level air filtration with MERV 14 filters
District Energy Heating and Cooling
Organic recycling program
Centralized waste collection
Heat reflecting curtain walls
No VOC building materials were used in reconstruction, reducing indoor air pollution
Water filtration of public water additives such as chlorine and fluoride
Natural daylight through every tenant space
Auto-adjusted indoor lighting to daylight exposure
Highly visible, accessible, and open staircase design promoting the use of stairwells and fitness
Biophilic design with live plants and natural elements to reduce tension, anxiety, and depression

HEALTH, WELLNESS, AND ENVIRONMENTALLY CONSCIOUS:

The 428 leads city, state, national, and international standards when it comes to health, wellness and sustainability.

The 428 has achieved WELL Gold Core and Shell Certification:
The WELL Building Standard is the first to integrate human health and well-being into the design, construction, maintenance and operations of buildings. WELL focuses on seven categories of building performance: air, water, nourishment, light, fitness, comfort, and mind. It’s a performance-based system to help create a built environment that improves the nutrition, fitness, mood, and sleep patterns of its occupants with an ROI for companies and organizations.

The 428 has achieved LEED Silver Core and Shell Certification:
The U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED green building program is the preeminent program for the design, construction, maintenance, and operations of high-performance green buildings. LEED provides the framework to create a healthy, resource-efficient, and cost-effective building.

The 428 was the first to receive the USGBC Building Health Leadership Award:
The USGBC Building Health Leadership Award celebrates green building projects that focus on occupant health throughout all phases of building development and operation. Award recipients go above and beyond by rigorously considering occupant health during planning stages, taking strategic action to promote health and well-being through building certifications, and committing to measuring impact.