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In every thread where someone suggests that office towers should be converted to residential in order to increase housing availability and cut on carbon emissions from commuting, there’s a counter that this conversion is all but impossibleimpractical. And yet.

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Nobody with any idea what they’re talking about said it was impossible.

It’s just expensive and time consuming to do.

The conversions I’ve been affected by took longer than building a new structure of similar size.

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You basically need to completely redo the plumbing. At that point, it’s often cheaper to just bulldoze it and rebuild.

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