Rethinking the Downtown Office|to|Multifamily Conversion

Rethinking the Downtown Office-to-Multifamily Conversion | NAIOP

Developers can convert suburban office into residential uses or tear them down more easily to rebuild for mixed-use/multifamily purposes. From a structural and ...

Downtown Office-to-Multifamily Conversions are Not the Answer

With the downtown offices occupied and the lower-rise suburban offices empty, there would be an opportunity to convert those older suburban ...

The office market transformation and how it will impact cities | CNU

Many cities have promoted office building conversion. The historic Manhattan downtown district is a notable example. The Wall Street financial ...

Record Office-to-Apartment Conversions Planned for 2024 - RentCafe

Currently, office-to-apartment conversions represent a staggering 38% of the 147,000 apartments in future adaptive reuse projects, outpacing any ...

Co-Living Could Unlock Office-to-Residential Conversions

New research finds efficient method to add low-cost, downtown housing ... The United States has a shortage of 4 million to 7 million homes and, at ...

The Transforming Office | Rethinking Vacant Downtown Offices: A ...

Beyond residential conversion, innovative uses for this space are being considered, from multifamily housing to vertical farming and medical/ ...

The Rise and Fall of Office to Multifamily Conversions: A Real Estate ...

Construction costs and regulations on residential construction will continue to limit conversions to smaller, older office properties—whose ...

Can Empty Offices Solve the U.S. Housing Shortage?

Figures on the number of conversions vary: According to CBRE data, 133 office-to-multifamily conversions have created more than 22,000 ...

To revitalize downtowns, cities need to stop making this big mistake

Cities across the nation face a dilemma: Downtown office buildings are empty as workers prefer to stay home. ... office-to-apartment conversion ...

Special Briefing: Revitalizing Downtowns by Turning Offices

Pandemic spurs cities to rethink single-use office districts · New York City aims to add 20,000 apartments in converted office buildings ...

Local adaptive reuse expert: When office-to-residential conversions ...

In an exclusive Opp Now interview, Adam Mayer—a Bay Area architect/designer specializing in adaptive reuse—explains why converting offices ...

High office vacancies have cities rethinking downtown zoning

More cities are modifying single-use downtown zoning to encourage office conversions to multifamily and mixed-use developments. And with good reason, as ...

Cities with empty commercial space and housing shortages are ...

As more downtown office buildings are converted to residential use, many of them are likely to house restaurants, day care facilities ...

Just look at why it's so hard to turn offices into homes : r/urbanplanning

City officials have the right vision: creating a “24/7” downtown with a better mix of offices, entertainment and homes. But the scale of ...

Challenges of Converting Offices to Housing - Rethinking The Future

Compared to building a whole new residential tower from scratch, office-to-residential conversion is less prone to public dissonance as the buildings in ...

Office-to-Residential Conversions: Mandates, Myths, and Possibilities

Mixed-use downtowns are key — Simply adding housing may not attract people or strengthen long-term office demand. A diversity of destinations ...

In its third life, D.C. office building becomes housing conversion

With about 90 percent of downtown composed of commercial real estate and only 10 percent residential, Bowser said the projects are intended to ...

High office vacancies have cities rethinking downtown zoning

More cities are modifying single-use downtown zoning to encourage office conversions to multifamily and mixed-use developments. And with ...

Office conversion. - Rethink Real Estate. For Good.

The fix is housing, say many. Convert those offices to homes and convert downtowns to neighborhoods. Co-housing, affordable housing and luxury ...

Office Glut has Cities Rethinking Single-Use Downtown - Globest

With record-high office vacancies persisting as the pandemic wanes in the US, a growing number of cities are adjusting single-use downtown ...