Adaptive reuse refers to the process of reusing an old site or building for a purpose other than which it was built or designed for.
Tag: adaptive reuse
Just what the doctor ordered
The architect for these model tenements, Henry Atterbury Smith, rethought the whole window idea, not only getting light and air inside the apartments, but...
Living in the Roman tradition
You can still find relics of the building's school days, but now the space mostly houses the diocese offices, Catholic Charities and the Catholic...
Cut from the same fabric
The Loray Mill, which for decades produced fabric for car tires, in April began a $40 million conversion project that will create 190 apartments...
Adapt and reuse
Adaptive reuse has gained favor as Americans continue to migrate from the suburbs to redeveloped city downtowns and close-in townships along mass transit lines...
Stop the press: print shop goes condo
But the dream faded at Printing House—along with dozens of other 1980s condos in New York-as the real estate market entered a long slump....
Asking tenants to spend the night
"The 520,000 square foot, 34 story structure will be converted to 445 for-lease residences," according to Metropolitan Partnership Ltd., the Reston, Va., development firm...
Lessons of time
Metro Realty announced changes to the plans during a public hearing on the project in May, but they didn't appear to satisfy many who...
Baptist seminary converts to apartments
The Building and Planning Committee of the Lower Merion Board of Commissioners unanimously recommended approval of Cross Properties' preliminary plans, which call for the...
Head of the class
Today, student housing is a bright spot in an otherwise gray multihousing landscape. It is one of the fastest growing asset classes and boasts...
