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by avidiax 771 days ago
It's difficult to turn modern office buildings (where electric lighting was assumed, 1970's+) into apartments. The reason is that most of the floor area has no access to natural light, and the utilities are buried in the core of the building. That means that you can only have long skinny single bedrooms or massive penthouse floor plans.

Older office buildings make great conversions, since natural light was a design requirement.