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> Seems to me the main constraint would be floor/window ratios Also the location of plumbing. The buildings with smaller floors can convert fine (for example,
by acchow 4y ago
> Seems to me the main constraint would be floor/window ratios
Also the location of plumbing.
The buildings with smaller floors can convert fine (for example, see 100 Van Ness). The ones with larger floors much harder
- gumby 4y agoGood point — few people want to leave their apartment and use a communal facility! I can imagine you could easily retrofit the water supply, but the drains sound harder. Still, these projects in NYC think they can pull it off — will be interesting to see. There is a precedent: many of the lower Manhattan residences (LES, SOHO etc) were factories. I just did a quick DDG search for “commercial to residential conversion” and to my (unjustified surprise) there were a lot of links from architects and contractors. NYT article from a few months ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/realestate/10posting-financial-district.html https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/10/realestate/10posting-fina...