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A departmental pilot within the mayor's administrative authority; sites advance only where due diligence supports them.
The problem
Tampa has buildings that sit empty while people have nowhere to live. Turning an unused office or warehouse into homes is often faster and cheaper than building from scratch.
The plan
The city will run an adaptive reuse pilot converting underused buildings into homes, starting with sites where land, structure, and financing are all validated.
Every conversion will be held to design-for-dignity standards, and the pilot's results will be published before any scale decision.
How you’ll know it’s working
- Pilot conversions launched with published due diligence
- Residents housed in converted buildings
- Conversion cost compared against new construction
- Residents satisfied with home quality
- Replicable conversion playbook published
From the Blueprint
- An RFP for vacant commercial conversion selects one awarded pilot project as a first-year action.
- Example: commercial self-storage converted to affordable housing on the same footprint.
- Standardized conversion playbooks reduce the cost and complexity of adaptive reuse.
Sources and research conditions
S01 pp. 232-235, 325-333
SOURCE-SUPPORTED
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