Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Office building to Co-Housing Conversions

[Rebecca Herman (rgherman07]

Thank you, Bryan! Also saw the post about Eastern Village after i sent my
reply.

On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 7:38 AM Bryan Bowen <bryan [at] caddispc.com> wrote:

> Hi Rebecca -
>
> There are some really great examples of turning hotels into housing. A few
> that I know of off the top of my head are in Steamboat Springs, CO but
> there are a lot more I think affordable housing developers have their eyes
> on older walkway accessed hotels in semi-resort areas for reuse as
> workforce housing. It's a bit of an easier lift than converting office
> buildings, but it does vary by jurisdiction.
>
>
> https://891khol.org/one-way-mountain-towns-are-trying-to-provide-affordable-housing-converting-old-hotels/
>
>
> - b
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> On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 8:33 AM Rebecca Herman <rgherman07 [at] gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Thank you for posting this. From what I understand, there can be many
> > challenges converting offices to housing.
> >
> > I'm also very interested in hearing about converting existing buildings
> > (apartments, townhouses, non housing) to cohousing. My forming community
> in
> > the Pacific NorthWest is considering this and we would appreciate any
> > stories and thoughts.
> >
> > Thank you, coho community!
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 21, 2024 at 4:47 AM <dkemper398 [at] gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > In the post-COVID era many office building have become vacant.
> > >
> > > I recognize that:
> > >
> > > *       CoHousing done well has many architecturally special needs.
> > > *       Office to residential conversions are not easy
> > >
> > > Still, with so much office space going vacant in our post-covid world
> and
> > > with the growing recognition of isolation as a public epidemic, I'm
> > > wondering if anyone knows examples of office building to cohousing
> > > conversions.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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