What It Really Takes to Convert an Office Building to Apartments | Odd Lots

Why HN readers recommended it

HN links it whenever office-to-residential conversion comes up, as a good deep dive into why the idea is not simple.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Bloomberg Podcasts

Topic

office-to-residential conversion

Format

podcast

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2023–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• Here are two of my favorite odd lots episodes. How banking worked before computers: [LINK] What it takes to convert commercial buildings to residential buildings: [VIDEO] Sharing YouTube links because they don't have paywall free podcast pages, though the podcast is free to subscribe to …

• Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast had an episode with someone who does conversions, "What It Really Takes to Convert an Office Building Into Apartments": > Big cities like New York have two real estate problems. Housing is scarce and office buildings are empty (or at least …

• There's a good "odd lots" podcast about this[1]. There's another of their podcasts about how apartment zoning rules make it hard to make "family" apartments[2]. Basically you need two egress points, windows that can open, windows in kitches and bedrooms. All of these are directly …