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Cozen Cities - July 23, 2025

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BOSTON—City’s First Office-to-Residential Conversion Project Begins -Construction has officially begun on Boston’s first office-to-residential apartment conversions. This effort is a part of a City pilot program aimed at...more

Jones Day

Bring Me Sunshine … but London Rights of Light Injunction Is Refused

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The owner of a property which enjoys a right of light over surrounding properties can seek to restrain development of the surrounding properties which would infringe that right. This can include seeking an injunction to...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Restoring Common Sense to Federal Office Space Management (Trump EO Tracker)

Revokes previous federal office space executive orders to enable agencies to select cost-effective facilities. The revoked orders are: The Administrator of General Services is directed to initiate the process to amend the...more

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Tall Building Trends in London

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Tall buildings have hugely contributed to London’s sense of place and rightful place as a world-leading financial centre. They have made a defined impact on the London skyline particularly in the period between 2000-2019 when...more

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Real Estate & Construction News Roundup (2/26/25) – Uncertainty for Renters, a Record-High Hotel Project Pipeline and Hybrid Hopes...

In our latest roundup, hybrid work creates hope for the office sector, Texas lawmakers ease office-to-residential conversations, service-based tenants are expected to lease more retail space, and more!...more

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Inflation and Rising Costs Won’t Slow Multifamily Momentum

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Vacancy rates across the state are showing improvement, particularly in San Francisco, which reflects California’s housing shortage. Demand also remains strong, and supply is growing, suggesting confidence in the sector...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

City of Boston Office to Residential Conversion Program Extension

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In June, Mayor Wu announced the extension of the City of Boston's Office to Residential Conversion Program with $15 million in additional funding from the state. The program, which formally launched in October of 2023, aims...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening To: July 2024

A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco - S.F.’s Stonestown to become west side’s largest residential development in 50 years (SF Chronicle): The plan to convert the Stonestown...more

Venable LLP

District of Columbia Establishes New Tax Incentives for Office Repositioning in Downtown

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On June 25, 2024, the D.C. Council passed the Downtown Activation Conversion Program Amendment Act of 2024, in a strategic effort to revitalize the downtown area—including portions of Dupont Circle, West End, Foggy Bottom,...more

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Money Trees (and Office Greens): Why Real Estate Developers are Transforming Vacant Office Spaces into Trendy Urban Farms

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Welcome to the trendy revolution of urban farming. Three years ago, Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled a plan to transform vacant office buildings in downtown DC into residential properties with hopes of creating a...more

Allen Matkins

Sustainable Development and Land Use Update 4.04.24

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Two bills proposed to modify the Builder’s Remedy are currently making their way through the State Legislature. As currently proposed, AB 1893 (Wicks) would (i) reduce the required percentage of (lower income) affordable...more

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Pending AB 2011 Amendments Hold Promise For Housing Developers

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On March 19, 2024, Assemblymember Buffy Wicks introduced new amendments to pending Assembly Bill (AB) 2243, which would amend AB 2011 (operative as of July 1, 2023). As explained in our prior legal alert, AB 2011 provides for...more

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Repositioning UK Office Assets—Risks and Opportunities: Best-in-Class vs. Out-of-Date

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Over recent years, we have seen an office sector where occupiers are taking less space and using it in a different way in the United Kingdom, even when compared to five years ago. That trend, which was accelerated by the...more

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White House Implements Plans to Facilitate Office-to-Residential Conversions

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Seyfarth Synopsis: With the cooperation of federal agencies such as the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Department of Transportation (DOT), the White House has established plans to use grants and...more

Allen Matkins

Sustainable Development and Land Use Update 10.27.23

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After more than two years of resistance, the city of Coronado, a wealthy island city in San Diego County, has agreed to follow state housing law by setting aside more land for development, Governor Gavin Newsom and Attorney...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

What We’re Reading, Watching, and Listening to: June 2023

A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco - The Luxury Shopping Oasis Emerging in San Francisco’s Struggling Downtown (Wall Street Journal): Although local foot traffic may be down,...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

What We're Reading, Watching, and Listening to: April 2023

A roundup of news and multimedia from the Unfamiliar Terrain team: San Francisco - S.F. housing production slows to crawl as state goals loom (San Francisco Chronicle): The Planning Department’s annual housing...more

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Adaptive Reuse: Creative Reimagining of Former Office Space to Address Differing Demands

Empty office buildings downtown. A housing shortage in almost every major market. Is there a way to address both issues at once by converting historic but underutilized office buildings into apartments and condos in city...more

Farella Braun + Martel LLP

[Event] San Francisco’s Downtown: What Does the Future Hold? - February 28th, San Francisco, CA

As work habits continue to transition from office space to work from home, sparsely populated downtown office towers are proving to be a barrier to the City’s goal of repopulating the traditional financial district. Enter the...more

Kohrman Jackson & Krantz LLP

Downtown vs. Suburban Offices: Commercial Office Space Leasing In A Post-Covid Market

Twenty-seven months ago, we couldn’t begin to comprehend the length or severity of the pandemic, nor its long-term effect on commercial office space. Today it is still not possible to make an accurate prediction, but a few...more

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Convergence, Creativity And Re-Purposing: The Role Of Mixed-Use Projects In Driving The Recovery Of Cities Around The World

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While significant challenges from COVID-19 continue to be felt in city centers around the world, the quote from Mark Twain seems applicable to cities in this moment: “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.” As...more

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass

SF’s Proposition E Links Office Allocation to Housing Production

On March 3, San Francisco voters will consider Proposition E (“San Francisco Balanced Development Act”), which links the City’s “Proposition M” office allocation scheme, originally approved by voters in 1986, to affordable...more

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