Buildings can “learn to code”

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Which I get but I don't think the housing will be cheap is my point which I clearly didnt articulate

Why would there be affordability when it'd so expensive to reno this units?

This case going to end up like Jose Alba’s. The defense ain’t going to settle for a plea with a injured witness wholeheartedly backing up the defendant and going as far to say his coworker saved his life.

And all descriptions of the video seems to suggest that the brothers were the instigators.

lots of the old buildings in fidi had smaller floor plans so it was easier to make residential rooms with windows to the outside. Newer office floor plans are much bigger and depend on mechanical ventilation. it will be interesting how they use those spaces in residences. Not saying its not possible, there are challenges.

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Yes but to be fair workers absolutely whine about jobs going obsolete.

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These conversions are EXTREMELY difficult and costly.

And in many cases its just unfeasible.

Source: I work for a property manager/developer. They are not easy by any means but the reddit go to is JuSt CoNvErT tO HoUsInG.

I would probably want to learn the thoughts and motivations of a business that has a significant impact on my life, especially since this vertical is my number cost of living expense.

It's okay to learn something, and take facts and thoughts into consideration. I promise you, it's fine.

Did you read the article? I don't see any of these responses as "whining".

Developers got asked why they haven't converted office buildings and the responses are:

• Building code requires large overhauls in the buildings structure that would be costly. Especially with the large increase in interest rates, finding funding for these projects is much more difficult now.

• Residential conversions are not something they are experienced in and would most likely need to outsource the job or sell the building.

• And the biggest one, even if they wanted to convert they legally are not allowed to because of zoning laws and need the government to step in to rezone districts.

Giving, in my opinion, legitimate reason on why these conversion haven't happened yet is not developers crying about people not coming back to the office.

What is humor, exactly?

This is the Crux of it since every room needs a Windows for ventilation purposes. You can Malena windowless room but man that room will suck.

good - the work conditions for residents are absolutely fucking abysmal and boggle the mind in terms of safety for both practitioners and patients, ~16 hour shifts for ~$70k your first year.

> I think the long-term goal is to make midtown less shitty by having it become more residential, somewhat similar to the financial district.

The goal is really to build houses where there is capacity to do so. 25 year olds don't have a problem catching a cab or taking the bus/subway to go wherever they want to go. I'm sure many of them would jump on the opportunity to live somewhere with more space or lower rents and still be close to all of Manhattan's amenities. When i was 25 years old the distance of places wasn't really much of an obstacle to me.

I think the bigger issue more than leases, is building codes. In converting most office buildings into residences, you'd have a lot of rooms and even whole units without any windows on the inside of the building. The city would need to give special exception building permits to let that go through.

Why do people care what their phone number is lol get a life.

I'm sure 20 years ago a lot of people though Financial District sucks and that no one would want to live there either. Since then, the population has exploded from 20K to 60K.

People will live there if there is affordability. The same thing happened with Fidi, which consistently had lower rents and housing prices than the rest of lower Manhattan.

I’m curious, how much was the fee?

As a city, we have "no sympathy, no sorry"-ed ourselves into the nations highest rents and housing costs. Deleterious zero sum thinking. Annoying.

It's not as easy as owners just deciding to do a conversion. The article discusses some real challenges that stand in the way. Even buildings with a lot of vacancy still have some long term commercial tenants still on lease, or a company with no experience with conversions may look to sell to someone who does, or zoning changes might be needed first. There's a lot of things that takes time and bog down the process.

Can’t nationalize office buildings. First we aren’t communist. Second the US constitution calls for compensation upon the taking of property.

You might not live there, but somebody will.

And those people who want to live in the city and are willing to live in midtown cuts down on demand for the neighborhoods you'd want to live in.