Adaptive Reuse Commercial to Residential Conversions Picking Up Steam

Apr

We definitely see growing momentum around the country related to adaptive reuse. In some cases, this involves office-to-residential conversions and in others office to other institutional uses. You may recall we started beating the drum on this back in November as one of our six strategies related to housing affordability (click here) with the mindset that increased production of housing units would be a positive outcome.

Since that time, we have had an opportunity to talk to a lot of folks who agree that we should see if we can make it work.

One architectural firm in particular, Gensler, has put much effort into the concept. Click the links below to learn more about how these ideas could become a reality.

Gensler Blog - What We Learned
Gensler Blog - Converting Class C Office Space
Gensler Webinar
Calculator Presentation