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So, I have opened a folder on my laptop into which I deposit what, to me, are intriguing ideas on how to ease our dire housing situation.in Halifax; an X post about whether the abandoned hulk of Bloomfield school could be used to get people out of the cold; a newspaper article about, retrofitting old buildings, call it what you will, it amounts to turning buildings once used for commercial or industrial use into housing, and it is gaining traction across the country for a reason.
Yet, the idea has hardly taken the city by storm. According to the Canadian Urban Institute since 2019 Halifax has only created 200 new housing units via conversion.“The culture in this town is not to reuse,” said Andrew Murphy, the owner of one of the city’s first commercial-residential conversions on Gottingen Street, who hoped to make the practice more widespread while president of the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia.
Moreover, commercial space in an older building in downtown Halifax fetches just a fraction per square foot of what apartment space goes for. The Shuffle, for example, is an older downtown Dartmouth hotel which has been turned into 79 new apartments, from studios to two-bedroom. Then there are the Tel-Lofts, once a down-at-the-heels telecom storage site on the same side of the harbour, now home to 24 loft units.
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