Another King Of LEED

Seattle Times (h/t Yglesias):

Workers are digging a hole on Seattle's Capitol Hill for a new office building unlike any commercial structure the planet's ever seen before.
You want green? There's never been anything greener.
The Bullitt Center, which celebrates its official groundbreaking Monday, has been designed to produce as much energy as it consumes.
Provide all its own water.
Process all its own sewage.
It aims to move green building forward a quantum leap. Maybe two.
Timbers for the six-story building's frame will come only from forests certified as sustainable by the world's toughest review body. To reduce the project's carbon footprint, the steel, concrete, wood and other heavy materials all will come from within 300 miles.
The center, at 15th Avenue and East Madison Street, will use less than one-third as much energy as the average building its size. Parking will be provided for bikes — but not for cars.
Common building materials that contain PVC plastics, mercury, cadmium and about 360 other substances considered hazardous won't be used.
"We set out to build the greenest office building — by far — in the world," says Denis Hayes, president and CEO of Seattle's environment-oriented Bullitt Foundation, the center's owner.

Pretty impressive goals.  I am curious how much they will end up saving long-term versus the upfront cost increase.