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Re:Boston Mayor Wu Announces Residential Conversion Program ... by afavour on Thursday July 13, 2023 @06:10PM (#36716802)
I’d be interested to see people get really creative with it. Throw a gym in on one floor. Cinema room on another. Storage units in a few more. Probably difficult to structurally support a pool on a floor not already designed for one but sure, let’s throw one in there too. A kids playroom is maybe a little depressing with no natural light but it could work. Hell: keep the middle commercial space and put a grocery store in.

Obviously once you’re talking about true high rises you’re going to run out of possibilities and I know the maths is still very rough. But it’s an interesting thought exercise to think about just how many amenities you could pack into a building.

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Re:Boston Mayor Wu Announces Residential Conversion Program ... by seanthemon on Thursday July 13, 2023 @07:47PM (#36717622)
Sound like what inevitably happens to my Sims games, just start filling in those gaps

Dance floor #3? Make it happen!

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Re:Boston Mayor Wu Announces Residential Conversion Program ... by viraptor on Thursday July 13, 2023 @08:18PM (#36717862)
Funnily this is kind of possible. Tokyo has at least one dance club located in a residential high-rise, just padded enough that the sound doesn't carry into the apartments around it. It's been a while though and I can't find the name now - please post a link if anyone remembers where it was.
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Re:Boston Mayor Wu Announces Residential Conversion Program ... by mejutoco on Friday July 14, 2023 @02:32AM (#36720188)
Liquid room?
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Re:Boston Mayor Wu Announces Residential Conversion Program ... by coredog64 on Thursday July 13, 2023 @09:01PM (#36718191)
20 Exchange in NYC is like that. Each chunk of floors gets a nearby amenities pod, with singletons for the really expensive stuff. Still, I think you’d have to get a screaming deal on the building in order to be able to make that economical.
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Re:Boston Mayor Wu Announces Residential Conversion Program ... by smcin on Thursday July 13, 2023 @09:54PM (#36718515)
Another use for interior rooms could be meeting/ conference rooms/ teleconference/ coworking spaces. Some premium apartment landlords currently have these in their clubhouses, usually reservable by the hour, residents usually get so many free credits a month.

Is this a thing, in planned conversions? If the pricing varied by day and time, or was dynamic, it could work very well. With secure lockers adjacent. (Would that require mixed-use zoning?)

A teleconference room (/remote classroom) by day could be time-multiplexed into a cinema room off-peak (with some compromise in seating plans), leasing company just needs to handle cleaning deposits and video surveillance at start and end to check users keep it clean.

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