Adaptive Reuse Is Hallmark Of Smart Growth

Industrial buildings are becoming the new economy's offices. Is adaptive reuse the halmark of smart growth?

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February 22, 2001, 7:00 AM PST

"The economic advantages of space in these older buildings, as well as the design potential, are very real. When Internet energy marketplace Enermetrix moved into the old American Woolen Mills building in Maynard, Mass., in 1998, the rent was about half the going rate in nearby Boston or Cambridge, says Jeff DeWeese, vice chairman and founder. "

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