More Use, Less Waste in the Workplace
Read about advancements in interior design & construction that revolutionize the industry’s approach to sustainability and waste reduction.
Many of the nation’s bigger cities confront a surplus of aging Class B and C office buildings. They also suffer from a deficit of affordable apartments.
The solution would seem obvious. Convert obsolete, empty office structures to needed housing, achieving a more environmentally respectful solution than building apartments from scratch.
Murphy’s law being what it is, a solution that elementary just has to be fraught with challenges. Indeed it is, with hurdles that range from office buildings’ deep floor plates to the dearth of stores and services typically found in business districts.
Still, adaptive reuse projects as far-flung as One Camelback in downtown Phoenix and Millennium on LaSalle in Chicago’s Loop business district have proven the conversion can be the prescription for the creation of new housing without the addition of new structures.
– Ken Gentert, Vice President KOVA
The number of apartments being forged from office buildings has reached an all-time high, with 11,000 apartments having been created in the last two years, according to RentCafe.com. The number of apartments resulting from adaptive reuse projects is growing more swiftly than the development of entirely new apartments, having risen 25 percent in the last two years, compared with pre-pandemic levels.
Chicago’s LaSalle Street financial district, filled with century-old buildings housing banks and other financial institutions, has long served as an economic engine for the city. Diversifying the corridor with new housing is a key component of the City of Chicago’s LaSalle Street Reimagined program, which aims to re-energize LaSalle Street in part by incorporating a greater diversity of uses, including housing and retail spaces. City financial resources and other incentives are now being made available to developers intending to convert underutilized office space into multifamily dwellings.
Among the first complete residential conversions is Millennium on LaSalle, with an address at 29 South LaSalle Street. Chicago-based national architecture, interior design, and sustainability firm FitzGerald, which has completed more than 100 conversions and restorations of historic structures, redeveloped the 13-story office structure built in 1902 into a luxury apartment building offering studio to two-bedroom residences and featuring such amenities as a fitness center, rooftop lounge and swimming pool . . .
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