nadiabarra
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Turning empty offices into apartments could help solve Portland’s housing crisis?
Portland’s housing crisis
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Joe
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Until the filthy drug addicted animals destroy the new housing. Fuck these people.
It tends to be extremely expensive, more expensive than building new.
T. A. Gardner
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No. Yours is the usual simplistic thinking of someone who doesn't recognize what's involved in the conversion.
I assume in converting the building to apartments normal building codes would be followed. This means each apartment gets a bathroom and a kitchen.
So, that means:
Installing a breaker panel for each apartment and installing new disconnects and meter service so each apartment pays for its own electricity. Elimination of the 480/277 volt panels, all 277 V single phase lighting, etc.
Removal of central HVAC and replacement with individual units for each apartment.
Installation of new plumbing to allow drains for each apartment, water into each, possibly a lift station for waste.
Elimination of the fire suppression system (sprinklers), or serious modification to it so it is up to code with the new room arrangements.
New construction of interior walls and partitions.
Modifications to the exterior of the building depending on how that is configured at the moment.
Addition of more fire exits.
Possible reconfiguration of stairwells and elevators.
Essentially, you are gutting the building and completely rebuilding it leaving only some of the facade intact.
Sometimes even states and cities dont get it....the state government gave up most of a campus in lacey (moved to Tumwater for consolidation)...for several years state and local leaders yapped about turning the buildings to residential and building a whole new community.....till the buildings were empty and they tried to actually do it.....finally talked to the experts....found out that it would cost something like $1.40 (maybe more, I forget....they were shocked) for every dollar new construction of buildings would cost.....too much.
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PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
as long as you don't need bathrooms or kitchens......which have never been designed into the structure of the office building......