Adaptive Reuse of Canada's Dying Malls for Housing

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This project involves converting empty department stores, struggling suburban malls, and underutilized parking lots across Canada into mixed-use communities, purpose-built rentals, and affordable housing projects. The initiative focuses on adaptive reuse of existing commercial real estate to address Canada's chronic housing shortage by leveraging fully serviced land in established neighborhoods. The approach includes gutting and retrofitting existing mall structures or demolishing aging retail boxes to build mid-rise or high-rise residential towers, emphasizing mixed-use development with retail, residential, and community facilities.