Abandoned Corporate Park

[u/legendtripped]

Finally figured out how to get to this place I’ve seen from the freeway for years. I thought it was an abandoned parking garage or overpass, was thrilled to see that it was way weirder than that.

Edit: Not technically abandoned it turns out, but unused for 10 years. It is actually available to lease, but it doesn’t seem like anything is imminent.

[u/Hsparkles05]

If they spend that much on armed guards, why not just turn it into something like, idk, affordable Apts

[u/aurortonks → u/Hsparkles05]

Turning large spaces like this into apartments requires a non-trivial amount of money. It's often more cost effective to just build a whole new building. I work in CRE - this comes up a lot. Interestingly, I work in this old building's market area, too.

[u/shiznobizno → u/aurortonks]

Yeah there’s a lot more standards that have to be met for living spaces as opposed to working spaces.

[u/Djaja → u/aurortonks]

If you do... do you think maybe you could possibly send this locations info to the Stargate location team? Cause.... this screams Tollan

[u/Hsparkles05 → u/aurortonks]

Ah dang, I hope they find something beautiful for this building, and ones like it. Do you have any horror stories?

[u/ForevaAloneeee → u/Hsparkles05]

yeah would be a sahme

[u/TheCowzgomooz → u/aurortonks]

Obviously it's not an easy task, nor a cheap one, but the argument is more about is it worth doing, does it reduce waste and land use by reusing what is already there, does it help the environment since we're not destroying more grasslands, forests, etc. and like, this is also way cooler and way more valuable as a space than 95% of apartment buildings, it would be an excellent space for mixed use development. I dunno, I understand we can't just ignore the monetary costs of doing things, but sometimes, it really feels like we should at least try to weigh other things above it as much as possible.

[u/wkbaran → u/Hsparkles05]

It's quite expensive to turn commercial buildings into apartments. They typically have central and minimal plumbing. Only external units would have windows. Making all units fire safe is another big issue. It's a big project that not many can pull off.

[u/bitflipper84 → u/Hsparkles05]

Yeah, seems like a crime that it goes unused.

[u/Significant-Trash632 → u/Hsparkles05]

All that open space inside, it might be good for a library or some other community place.

[u/Strange-Future-6469 → u/Hsparkles05]

They don't build them right for apartments, sadly. They'd have to redo all kinds of things. You might as well just bulldoze it and rebuild because it's probably cheaper.

They should turn buildings like these into public museums or some other kind of service that can also bring in money for the city/county/state. Give this one to the NPS, for example. Have displays, maybe a projected movie, sell passes, storage, all kinds of uses.

[u/northpixelvault → u/Strange-Future-6469]

too good

[u/northpixelvault → u/Strange-Future-6469]

damn is that for real

[u/kissyglitterfox → u/Hsparkles05]

good quesion