The Seattle Times on vintage condos

The Seattle Times has an article about all the recent conversion and ‘adaptive reuse’ projects, Throughout Seattle, vintage condos conserve character, and takes a look at the Pittsburgh and Trace Lofts. :

A growing number of developers throughout the region and across the nation are rehabbing historic-lookingbuildings and turning them into new condos with an old look.

It’s a trend that has caught on strong in Seattle, with such places as the former Queen Anne High School, the Cobb Building downtown and the former Bekins storage facility on 12th and Madison being transformed into condos. There even has been talk of doing that to Seattle’s first skyscraper, the Smith Tower office building in Pioneer Square.