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Originally Posted by Crawford
Office conversions aren't really a municipal bragging point. It means the office space is dead in the water. A downtown with mass conversions is one where owners have no hope of recovery.
I'm not against office conversions, but when every other building is being converted, that's actually a really bad sign. Historic conversions can be pretty cool, but when 70's-era stuff is being mass-converted, that's generally not good.
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nonsense -- that cart is ahead of its horse.
long empty or underutilzed buildings were already a bad sign.
you would rather buildings continue to sit empty?
re-peopling downtown via converting any and every empty building via tax abatement and historic credits is a smart move.
when new office buildings are needed so what, they easier to build than residential anyway. and they don't have to be sherwin williams hq quality.
cleveland has been very thoughtful and has been doing this as best it can around downtown longer and harder than most, starting in the warehouse district and flats in the late 1980s and 1990s, euclid avenue in the oughties and around public square more currently. its been nothing but a good thing -- see the links -- with more to come.
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