What It Takes to Convert a Multi-Million Dollar Office Into Housing
With housing in short supply, developers are converting more empty offices into apartments. But not all buildings are candidates for reuse, even as more than on
A video article covering some of the complications that come from converting empty offices into usable apartments.
That was really interesting. I was always wondering why we didn't just convert old abandoned shopping malls into residential / shopping districts
That's a whole other set of problems, I know I've read articles about that too but a 15 second google didn't find it.
If I remember right, the main issue isn't the building shape like with skyscrapers, it has to do with power and plumbing. They're only set up for a certain amount of usage of both, and residential is massively higher so you'd basically need to ripe it all out and do it from scratch. And considering malls are predomenantly just in the middle of empty land anyway, at that point you might as well just get the next bit over of empty land and do it from the get go with the appropriate infrastructure.