The historic Eastern Columbia Building in L.A. now features 147 loft-style living units.
A 1904 office building-turned-condo brings upscale living and views to downtown Cleveland.
A neighborhood rallies to bring affordable housing to a former church site in Jamaica Plain, Mass.
A turn-of-the-century steam plant now houses upscale condos in an up-and-coming Queens, N.Y., neighborhood.
Eitel Building City Apartments win 2009 MFE award for adaptive reuse project of the year.
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It was the town dump, and now it's the crown jewel. Braintree, Mass.-based developer John M. Corcoran and Co. (JMC) successfully turned a contaminated brownfield site into a LEED-certified, 100 percent smoke-free apartment community boasting 238 units with rents ranging from $1,150 to $2,570 per month.
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Charlotte, N.C., is known as a banking center. But long before its financial pillars, it was a textile town. And one of those first textile mills was Alpha Mill, built in 1888.
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A former U.S. Naval Asylum built in 1827 by William Strickland, named an historical landmark in 1971, but unused since 1976 has found new life as market-rate condos just outside of downtown Philadelphia.
A former Western Electric Co. warehouse, Mockingbird Station is now a transit-oriented, mixed-use retail, office, and rental loft development.
The desire for urban living drives the adaptive reuse of vacant schools. Dozens of school projects are currently capping off , under construction, near completion, or in the planning stages. This new wave of adaptations brings with it distinct challenges and opportunities -- especially the need to balance the demands of community stakeholders against the financial rewards of redevelopment.