Dan from Lotus Eaters raised this point as not as easy at it sounds.
Turning a commercial building into residential apartments is basically impossible as it requires a total internal fit out. It will probably be cheaper to demolish and rebuild if you wanted too.
Maybe if the price of commercial real estate crashed, but if that happened the overall economy would most likely be affected so who knows what the costs would be. Spoiler, they reckon about 3% of NY's commercial office space would be good candidates for conversion.
"Apartments" yes, needing a redesign. "Barracks" not so much.
Set a keycard or passcode on the elevator and stairwell. A washroom or four per floor that houses a half-dozen toilets each? Take the toilet plumbing pipes for one or two stalls and turn them into a shower set. Done. Toss some mattresses in there and you've got solid living conditions.
Let's hope they convert them to residential housing to keep all the migrants and leftists from spilling out into the countryside.
Dan from Lotus Eaters raised this point as not as easy at it sounds.
Turning a commercial building into residential apartments is basically impossible as it requires a total internal fit out. It will probably be cheaper to demolish and rebuild if you wanted too.
Edit: Someone did a basic calculation of the numbers and it's not great: https://cre.moodysanalytics.com/insights/cre-trends/office-to-apartment-conversions/
Maybe if the price of commercial real estate crashed, but if that happened the overall economy would most likely be affected so who knows what the costs would be. Spoiler, they reckon about 3% of NY's commercial office space would be good candidates for conversion.
"Apartments" yes, needing a redesign. "Barracks" not so much.
Set a keycard or passcode on the elevator and stairwell. A washroom or four per floor that houses a half-dozen toilets each? Take the toilet plumbing pipes for one or two stalls and turn them into a shower set. Done. Toss some mattresses in there and you've got solid living conditions.
That's such a completely terrible idea that progressive cities might do it. They can put all the childless single cat ladies in there.