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loft building

American  

noun

  1. a building of several floors with large areas of unobstructed space, originally rented out for light industrial purposes and now frequently converted to residential occupancy.


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He and his wife, Maria Larsson, have regrouped in New York, in a five-story loft building on Mercer Street in SoHo that Eversley bought for $350,000 in 1980.

From New York Times Sep. 6, 2022

OpenAI occupies a historic three-story loft building, originally built as a luggage factory in 1903, three years before the earthquake and fire that consumed much of San Francisco.

From The New Yorker Oct. 7, 2019

Kevin LaBranche says he lives in a loft building in downtown Kansas City and luckily was home when his new iPhone arrived and he got a notification from Amazon.

From Seattle Times Jul. 29, 2018

You wait with a friend and two strangers in front of a loft building on the industrial outskirts of downtown Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 7, 2015

The horror of the fire in the ten-story loft building at Washington place and Greene street late Saturday afternoon, with its heavy toll of human lives, grows blacker each succeeding hour.—Monday afternoon.

From Newspaper Reporting and Correspondence A Manual for Reporters, Correspondents, and Students of Newspaper Writing by Hyde, Grant Milnor

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