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Originally Posted by Qubert
Those will eventually become apartments much the same way giant brownstones in Brooklyn and Back Bay Boston did when they fell out of fashion. I think those McMansions could give way to some pretty decent density in the future...
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Where is there going to be demand for apartments in places like this though? Unlike the brownstones that were advantageously situated adjacent to city centres, the McMansions of the 80s-2000s were pretty much built exclusively on the exurban fringe. These areas are already stuggling to attract growth, and they don't really have the infrastructure to support more density.
There's also the issue of build quality, and unlike the masonry structures of the past, typical wood-framed McMansions were built with much shorter life spans. Adaptive reuse may just not be feasible when they're going to require significant structural repair.