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What It Really Takes to Convert an Office Building to Apartments | Odd Lots
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An Odd Lots podcast episode on why converting empty office buildings into apartments is hard. A managing director at Vanbarton Group walks through the zoning, financing and construction obstacles, mostly in New York.
HN links it whenever office-to-residential conversion comes up, as a good deep dive into why the idea is not simple.
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