Botting believes adaptive reuse is key to helping neighbourhoods bounce back post-pandemic. “All of our downtowns, all of our communities are rethinking how they use their buildings and how the ...

Properties most suitable for adaptive reuse typically have a floor plate of less than 15,000 square feet and are built before 1990, ideally within a prime location for residential uses.

Botting believes adaptive reuse is key to helping neighbourhoods bounce back post-pandemic. “All of our downtowns, all of our communities are rethinking how they use their buildings and how the ...

“Adaptive reuse is one of the really key components of how we do that as a community.” Botting believes adaptive reuse is key to helping neighbourhoods bounce back post-pandemic.

The concept isn’t new. Adaptive reuse of buildings goes back thousands of years, with documented projects that include the conversion of the Pantheon in Rome into a Catholic church in 609.

A community icon Perhaps one of the most popular places for adaptive reuse is Binondo, hailed as the country’s—and the world’s—oldest Chinatown.

The firm, however, notes that a recent report by the RAND Center on Housing and Homelessness in Los Angeles found that construction for adaptive reuse projects cost on average around US$340,000 ...

Adaptive reuse — the process of rehabilitating an existing building for a new purpose — is not exclusive to the hotel industry, but more hospitality brands and builders are seeking it out for ...

In fact, The Village, an apartment complex at 2330 W. Northwest Highway, is a prime example of an adaptive reuse project that can transform the local community and give its residents a helping hand.

Botting believes adaptive reuse is key to helping neighbourhoods bounce back post-pandemic. “All of our downtowns, all of our communities are rethinking how they use their buildings and how the ...