Building Transformation & Adaptive Reuse
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Franklin Tower
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135 West 50th Street
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The Residences at Rivermark
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1 St. Clair West
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One Post Office Square
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Loffler Companies
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The Mart
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The Gild
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Esperson 17th Level Amenity Space
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The Post Office
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110 The Queen’s Walk
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10 Gresham Street
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1735 N Lynn St Repositioning
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100 North Tampa Building Lobby Renovations
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Gateway
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Marshside at Nowell Creek Village
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146 Nav
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the Ion
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Charlotte Plaza Repositioning
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Tabor Center Amenity Suite
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633 Folsom
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The Amp
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The Book Depository
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730 Third Avenue
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The Peak Sapporo New Office Building
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15 Laight Street
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550 Madison
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What We’ve Learned by Assessing More Than 1,000 Potential Office-to-Residential Conversions
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From Pilots to Policy: Exploring Office-to-Residential Conversions in Boston
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How Office-to-Residential Conversions Could Revitalize Downtown San Francisco
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Unlocking Hidden Value: How Cities and Developers Are Partnering to Turn Vacant Offices into Residential
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10 Workplace Trends for 2024: What’s In and What’s Out?
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Open or Private? It’s Time for a New Workplace Model.
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Office-to-Everything: A New Path for Revitalizing Downtowns
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Unlocking the Value of ESG
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Why We Need Bold Change to Revitalize Our Cities
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Adapting Big Box Retail Stores to Healthcare Clinics
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A Viable Future for L.A. Starts With Public-Private Partnerships
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Office-to-Residential Conversions: Mandates, Myths, and Possibilities
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How to Reposition Office Space for Market Differentiation
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Resuscitating Buildings for Life Sciences and Healthcare
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Transforming a Generational Asset Into a Class A Tower
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Old to Bold: How Hotel Adaptive Reuse Transforms Communities
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Book Depository Jump-Starts Ford’s Detroit Innovation District
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How is Decarbonization Changing Architecture and Design?
Cities continue to amend regulations to meet the demand for building conversions.
As city and local governments recognize the opportunity to add more housing while also addressing stranded office building assets, they are amending local building codes and change-of-use regulations to support the demand for a more varied mix of uses in CBDs. The changes will also open the door to conversions for many types of spaces.
Public-private partnerships and government incentives are driving building and neighborhood transformation.
Cities have realized that single-function central business districts no longer serve them. To drive investment and encourage a new mix of uses, cities are creating public-private partnerships or offering other government incentives that can help ease the approvals process and tight margins on attainable housing projects.
The demand for sustainable, high-performing retrofits intensifies.
ESG goals, decarbonization targets, and emerging policies and regulations are increasing demand for adapted or retrofitted buildings that can be modified into high-performing assets at much lower carbon costs to comply with emerging policy requirements around lifecycle carbon analysis.
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Matthew Holt
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Steven Paynter
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Sheryl Schulze
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Pearl House is the Largest Office-to-Residential Conversion in New York History
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Factors To Examine in Order To Determine a Building’s Suitability for Adaptive Reuse Into Housing
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How Calgary ‘Blazed the Trail’ for Office-to-Residential Conversions
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Urban Land Institute Shared Insights From Gensler’s Steven Paynter on Office-to-Residential Conversions
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Gensler and CBRE IM Are Reimagining 10 Gresham Street As a Sustainable, Low-Carbon Refurbishment
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NY1 Interviewed Gensler Principal Robert Fuller About Transforming Stranded Assets in New York
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The Latest Developments in Office-to-Residential Conversions in Boston
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The Challenges Developers Face in Converting Empty Offices Into Apartments
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CTV News Interviewed Steven Paynter About Gensler’s Office-to-Residential Scorecard
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Strategies for Office-to-Residential Conversions in New York
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How Gensler Transformed the Historic Dallas County Records Building and Complex
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There’s Growing Demand for Office Conversions as Cities Seek to Address Multiple Crises and Create Housing
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Urban Land Institute Tours 888 Douglas, an Adaptive Reuse Project in El Segundo, Calif.
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Denver Joins Other Major U.S. Cities in Office-to-Residential Conversion Push
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How U.S. Cities Are Converting Underperforming Office Buildings To Address Housing Shortages
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