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With five million square feet of available space across 47 office towers, downtown Toronto is becoming a tenant’s paradise - and an investor’s potential nightmare

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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Plumbing, apparently, is one issue—residential buildings typically need much more of it than office buildings do. Not an insurmountable problem, but costs $$ to overcome.

[–] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

The 2 projects I witnessed had to re-do the plumbing, electrical, elevators, fire detection/sprinklers, HVAC, and exterior glass, in addition to gutting every interior wall and doing a full asbestos removal.

It was a lot of work, over several years, but they now have full residential occupancy, so it seems to have worked out.