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April 27, 2023

Can contractors cash in on the growing office-to-residential conversion trend?

  • Seattle launched a competition this month for downtown building owners and design firms to come up with conversion ideas.
    • By MAE ANDERSON, ASHRAF KHALIL and MICHAEL CASEY
    Associated Press

    AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews [enlarge]
    A high-rise at 160 Water St. in the Manhattan financial district of New York City is undergoing a conversion to residential apartments.

    NEW YORK — On the 31st floor of what was once a towering office building in downtown Manhattan, construction workers lay down steel bracing for what will soon anchor a host of residential amenities: a catering station, lounge, fire pit and gas grills.


     
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