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What It Really Takes to Convert an Office Building to Apartments | Odd Lots

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What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN links it whenever office-to-residential conversion comes up, as a good deep dive into why the idea is not simple.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2023, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “Here are two of my favorite odd lots episodes.”

    Episode on what it takes to convert offices to residential.

    mooreds, 2023-12 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Favorite Podcast Episodes of 2023?”

  2. “Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast had an episode with someone who does conversions”

    Interview with a developer about difficulties of office-to-residential conversion.

    throw0101b, 2023-12 · Recommendation · in “The high price of empty office space”

  3. “There's a good "odd lots" podcast about this[1].”

    Explains why office layouts clash with apartment requirements.

    cduzz, 2024-05 · Recommendation · in “Can turning office towers into apartments save downtowns?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: real estate, zoning, housing, office vacancy, construction

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