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New York construction scare highlights the challenges of converting offices into housing

New York construction scare highlights the challenges of converting offices into housing
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When two steel columns buckled this week inside the former Pfizer headquarters in midtown Manhattan, the scare prompted evacuations and halted work on one of the nation’s largest office-to-apartment conversions.It also highlighted the complex engineering behind adaptive reuse projects, which have...

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