Adaptive reuse is the conversion of a building from its original purpose to a new one, most prominently transforming obsolete office, retail, or industrial buildings into residential or mixed-use space, then profiting from the gap between the cheap, functionally obsolete building and the far...
Log in to followSitting with a 1978 concrete frame office building, 11 floors, 22,000 sf plates, post-tensioned slabs. Perimeter glazing is continuous strip window, sill at 30 inches, so the dayl…
I have one rental closing soon and I have been reading way outside my level, which is probably the problem. What I picked up: there's a huge glut of old office buildings, some are…
I wanted something concrete instead of more spreadsheets, so I drove around and wrote down every obsolete looking building within twenty minutes of me. Here's what I actually have…
I mostly do land and zoning and I'm trying to get the vocabulary straight before I embarrass myself in front of a planner. I see "adaptive reuse" used for a warehouse becoming lof…
I'm new at this, so here's the beginner question from the back of the room. When people here talk about conversions the numbers are in the millions. I want to know what the floor…
I'm brand new here, so treat me accordingly, but a broker who knows I'm looking sent me a package and I'd rather learn on a real set of numbers than a blog post. 1962 office build…
Trades background, mostly commercial mechanical, so I'm coming at this from the pipe end rather than the money end. An office floor has maybe two wet stacks serving a core restroo…