London’s first office-to-apartment conversion to open in under a year

London’s first office-to-apartment conversion is about to hit the market and the developer says it’s among the fastest in the country, taking less than a year to complete.

The former law office at 376 Richmond St. has been converted into 23 studio and one-bedroom apartments at lower than market rates, said Jefferson Huang, principal at Toronto-based real estate investment firm Bluevale Capital Group, and a Western University graduate.

“The whole idea is to innovate. This will be London’s first office conversion and it is special that it happened in under one year. It is proof you can accelerate housing. We have proven it works,” said Huang.

Bluevale began the conversion in November 2024 and will take the wraps off the project Friday with a ribbon-cutting, he added.

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