Yeah @Surrealplaces, I wonder what will happen with the old Nexen building. The owners have a huge legal battle on their hands with the asbestos in the walls of that building. However, I could totally see the owners refurbishing it and making it once again a very appealing class A or AA office tower. Especially since its beautiful over there again after they did that multi-million dollar renovation of Century Gardens.Ultimately I'd like to see conversions in a mix of Class C, B and A (if possible) It's nice to have smaller old stock office space around for smaller businesses, in the event the Class A or B space ever begins to fill up. The ultimate home run in a conversion would be to do Nexen or a couple of the Bow Valley Square towers
BVS would be great as half office, half residential, with a small grocery store built in. Too bad the city couldn't work with the feds and/or province and create some sort of pilot project that comes with grant money.
I think the larger buildings with larger floor-plates will probably stay as office space for now, even if half empty. My understanding is that office conversion really only work well with smaller floor-plates.Yeah @Surrealplaces, I wonder what will happen with the old Nexen building. The owners have a huge legal battle on their hands with the asbestos in the walls of that building. However, I could totally see the owners refurbishing it and making it once again a very appealing class A or AA office tower. Especially since its beautiful over there again after they did that multi-million dollar renovation of Century Gardens.
Yeah, the shape of Nexen is also not exactly idealI think the larger buildings with larger floor-plates will probably stay as office space for now, even if half empty. My understanding is that office conversion really only work well with smaller floor-plates.
Nexen would be cool if it was tuned into large open parcels of loft space....like 4 or 5 units per floor. You could do some cool things, but for the most part it's not even easy space to use for office.Yeah, the shape of Nexen is also not exactly ideal
Ya that one is probably too big, but it is such a nice heritage building and after having been the Hudson Bay building they converted to condos in Victoria I just added it because I want it to happen haha.Hudson Bay Building? Wouldn't it's massive floor plates make it one of the more difficult to convert into residential?