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To what extent can an adaptive reuse project in Springfield MA that…

- - - - Adaptive reuse can revitalize the rest of a community
        
        Can be a good way to continue development when a city runs out of land
        
        Mills have large open spaces so they are easily customized
        
        Mills are usually in low income areas so fixing them can also help those communities
      - LOCATION MATTERS
        “. In fact underused industrial districts are often found near the center of cities and so are already provided with access to infrastructures and markets that probably would not be as readily available in undeveloped areas. The city in turn benefits from maintaining a local employment base, provided the buildings are not made into residential units”
        AR in NE
- - - - History of the building matters to buyers
      - sometimes surrouding land and infrastructre must also be improved on
      - If one building is built fixed but the surroudning buildings are still abandoned then what was the point
  - - - Older means more cost to rehabilitate "“While in other circumstances falling property values would eventually attract new interest, the longer buildings remain abandoned, the more deteriorated they become and the more expensive it is to rehabilitate them” Adaptive reuse in NE mill :
      - Abandoned property may have unpaid fees associated with them
      - Some property has an owner who is unwilling to sell
      - A lot of abandoned property does not have an owner