Here are some key takeaways from the study:
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Atlanta office space grew by 4.7 million square feet or 79 buildings through adaptive reuse over the past century, making it the only southern city to make the top 10.
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Georgia is #11 in the top 25 states for office adaptive reuse, with 363 buildings totaling 36.7 million square feet converted to office space.
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Overall, most of the office buildings created through adaptive reuse in the past 100 years were converted from industrial space (61%), followed by retail (19%) and residential (5%).
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90% of conversions happened in the past 40 years, one-fifth in the 1980s—the period when office adaptive reuse took off—and 53% in the past two decades.
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