One Wall Street’s Tricky Transition From Business Offices to Luxe Living Spaces
From urban planners to real estate developers to the White House, everyone’s talking about transforming the country’s growing lot of vacant office towers into much-needed…
These Ten U.S. Cities Are Converting the Most Offices to Residential
Stubbornly high office vacancy rates around the U.S. have led to a lot of cities and building owners exploring converting office properties to residential buildings.…
Leading Architect Discusses How Office and Residential are Colliding
COVID-19 dealt a huge blow to the real estate development world when it first struck. Projects paused or were scrapped altogether, uncertainty around the future…
Boosting a Building’s Value From the Ground Up: Why Floor Plans Matter
Do you know why blueprints are called blueprints? In 1842, an astronomer/mathematician turned chemist discovered a way to copy a drawing photographically. The process was…
Balancing Building Preservation and City Modernization
In San Diego, the historic cinema, the California Theatre, opened on April 22, 1927. A relic of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture, it had gold-leaf ceilings,…
Proposed Brownfield Regulation Takes Away Tool to Fight California’s Housing Crisis
In the Golden State, the term ‘housing crisis’ has been uttered so often, by so many, it’s practically lost all meaning. Politician after politician promises…
Suburban Mall Wins Reuse Battle Landing ‘Fortnite’ Global HQ
For over a decade the small Raleigh, North Carolina suburb of Cary has been trying to find ways to adapt its languishing Cary Towne Center…