{"id":109314,"date":"2020-11-11T00:00:02","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/?p=109314"},"modified":"2026-04-17T01:17:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:17:59","slug":"fifty-years-of-adaptive-reuse-in-cleveland-over-5000-converted-apartments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rentcafe.com\/blog\/rental-market\/market-snapshots\/fifty-years-of-adaptive-reuse-in-cleveland-over-5000-converted-apartments\/","title":{"rendered":"50 Years of Adaptive Reuse in Cleveland Give Life to More Than 5,000 Converted Apartments"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adaptive reuse focuses on the conversion and repurposing of older buildings, and Cleveland, OH is a city that knows a thing or two about making the most of its old buildings.<\/p>\n

A recent RentCafe study<\/a> showed that, since the 1950s, nearly 2,000 old buildings in the U.S. have been converted into apartments, including around 800 in the last decade alone. What\u2019s more, the trend is at an all-time high \u2014 fueled by a need for sustainable housing and paired with a spike in the popularity of converted projects as a way to introduce unique new apartments while celebrating the history of their cities.<\/p>\n

The study puts Cleveland in 8th place nationwide for most new apartments created through adaptive reuse projects \u2014 5,356 rental units \u2014 and ahead of larger cities like San Francisco, Dallas and Washington, D.C. These apartments are located in 36 repurposed buildings, which places Cleveland 10th nationally and again ahead of big cities like Dallas, Seattle and or Washington, D.C. To find out the original purpose of the 36 buildings in their previous lives in the Ohio city, we turned to Yardi Matrix data.<\/p>\n

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