The Goodyear commercial property is highlighting its active pollinator habitats to raise community awareness about local biodiversity and urban conservation.
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The GEN1 office building at GSQ is hosting an urban beekeeping and native pollinator program to encourage community awareness around local environmental sustainability.
In partnership with beekeeping company Alvéole, the office building is home to a rooftop hive of approximately 30,000 docile honeybees, along with two wild bee homes positioned between the GEN1 building and the parking garage. The structures provide shelter for native, stinger-less solitary pollinators such as leafcutter, mason, and wool carder bees.
The installations serve as active habitats and ecological research tools. Honey samples from the rooftop colony are sent to a laboratory for analysis to map local floral diversity, and nesting data from the wild bee homes provides insight into on-site biodiversity.
The collected information is compiled into Environmental Data Reports, which track pesticide use, fertilizer impacts, and plant resources within the bees' flight path. Globe Management utilizes this data to make choices on the types of flora used in the property's landscaping to support a healthier urban ecosystem.
Tenants and visitors can observe the solitary bees firsthand via built-in observation drawers on the wild bee homes, which allow a look inside the nesting tubes without disturbing the insects.
Visit alveole.buzz for regular updates on the colony's progress.
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