Charlotte is joining the growing list of cities turning old hotels into new homes.

Our city added 234 apartments through hotel conversions in 2024 — the eighth-highest total nationwide and the third-highest in North Carolina, right behind Raleigh and Durham.

Here are the details from the latest Adaptive Reuse Report from RentCafe: • Charlotte added 234 apartments in 2024 from repurposed hotels, reflecting the city’s growing embrace of adaptive reuse to meet housing demand. • Among its notable projects is the conversion of the former Arbor View Hotel, built in 1997, into the Vivo Living Arbor View Apartments, offering 138 new units. • Looking ahead, Charlotte has 2,499 apartments in the adaptive reuse pipeline. Of these, 1,735 units are expected to come from converted office spaces,

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