Sentences with phrase «adaptive reuses like»

Adaptive reuses like those at Fort Baker, have raised some controversy from concerns about the historical integrity of these buildings, after extensive renovations and whether such alterations fall within the spirit and / or the letter of the preservation laws they are protected by.

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Exclusively for Personal Democracy Plus: As leading city governments across the country consider how to approach the Internet age, they're taking the concept of «adaptive reuse» to a new frontier by thinking of new ways to turn old standbys like payphones or disused rail tunnels into new pieces of digital infrastructure.

Such is the idea behind things like permaculture, adaptive reuse and just generally reusing old things to make new and unexpected objects.

It's been such a huge financial success that other cities, like D.C. and Atlanta, are creating their own «adaptive reuse» parks from old infrastructure.

According to Robert Slatt, a principal at the mortgage banking firm Newark Realty Capital based in San Francisco, most of the development activity he is seeing involves adaptive reuse of obsolete structures, like old warehouse buildings.