Tag: Office-to-Apartment Boom

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From Vacant Offices to Home Addresses

Inside São Paulo’s Downtown Reinvention eyesonbrasil New York isn’t the only city racing to turn empty office towers into apartments — and São Paulo’s version of the story looks nothing like Manhattan’s. There are no new floors being stacked on top of century-old frames, no columns buckling under fresh residential loads. Instead, Brazil’s largest city…
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What the Pfizer Building Scare Reveals About New York's Office-to-Apartment Boom

Cracks in the Conversion

What the Pfizer Building Scare Reveals About New York’s Office-to-Apartment Boom eyesonbrasil For a few tense hours last week, a chunk of Midtown Manhattan went dark. Streets closed. Nine buildings evacuated. A “frozen zone” stretched from 40th to 45th Street between First and Third Avenues. The cause: two buckled steel columns on the 21st floor…
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