A n old hotel turned into trendy apartments; a restaurant built in a former bank; and a warehouse divided into cool office spaces are three prime examples of adaptive reuse. In today’s climate of ...

In the era of adaptive reuse, owners and developers are opting for massive upgrades to their structures. The most common change of use is likely the adaptation of an apartment building to a ...

Imagine a scenario in which a city had thousands of residents struggling to find and stay in affordable homes while large, obsolete facilities like hospitals and schools stood empty for years. This is ...

We have written about adaptive re-use in our previous columns of "The Magic of Adaptive Reuse" and "Shape Up". We postulate that with proper incentives, the existing one, two and three story buildings ...

Discussions about creating missing middle housing to solve the housing shortage focus mainly on new construction in neighborhoods zoned strictly for single-family housing. Changing minds has proved ...

In a recent countywide survey, affordable housing was the top issue for Marin voters. State law requires Marin jurisdictions to meet the housing needs of our community. Every local government must ...

Earlier this year, Michigan Central Station reopened to widespread excitement, marking a new chapter for this historic site. Initially opened in 1914, the station had long been a hub for Detroiters ...

Rising housing demand and sustainability goals have developers looking for opportunities to adapt old or underutilized buildings into something more valuable. California-based McCullough Landscape ...

An expert in historic plaster restoration is among the 10 honorees chosen by Greater Portland Landmarks for its annual preservation awards. Peter Lord, of Peter Lord Plaster & Paint in the York County ...

A rendering of a proposed adaptive reuse project at 2100 Crystal Drive (rendering by Brick Visual, courtesy of JBG Smith) New conversion projects on three aging, mostly empty office buildings in ...

New construction alone cannot adequately address the affordable housing problem, given its enormity. We must also lean into something called “adaptive reuse,” which refers to turning old buildings ...