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Originally Posted by coolmandan03
So I do this for a living, and that's not really a thing. You can always rehab a garage into other usable space, but if's always cheaper/more efficient to rebuild a garage as something new. Garage have live and dead loads so different than habitats and work places, and people prefer to work/live with higher ceilings. An investment in a parking garage is a long term one.
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I was just in Baltimore and stayed at Brookshire Suites on Lombard. The ceilings were really low, so low in fact that my hair brushed the ceiling where a beam was going across the room. I'm 6'3". I asked for a room with a higher ceiling and they said they are all low since the building used to be a parking garage. I didn't doubt it, but now I do. I thought it was a great reuse, if it's true.