New construction alone cannot adequately address the affordable housing problem, given its enormity. We must also lean into something called “adaptive reuse,” which refers to turning old buildings ...

In the midst of largely frozen debt markets with many property owners saddled by antiquated assets, a growing number of borrowers are seeking financing tools for adaptive reuse projects as a path to ...

We have written about adaptive re-use in our previous columns of "The Magic of Adaptive Reuse" and "Shape Up". We postulate that with proper incentives, the existing one, two and three story buildings ...

The team looks into the solution of adaptive reuse as a response to the housing shortage. The Brick by Brick team of solutions journalists looks at adaptive reuse as a response to the housing shortage ...

Bryan StalderContributor The former Askew School building at 2630 Topping Ave. could soon take on a new life as affordable ...

The math to breathe new life into old properties is brutal. Older buildings often provide authenticity that can’t be manufactured, so with the right tenants, unit mix or creative redevelopments, such ...

Desa Sealy is President & Founder of Gotham Urban Ventures, a real estate development and consulting firm focused on Public Private Partnerships. As an urbanist who is passionate about achieving both ...