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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Example Sentences

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

Ghetto Gastro calls its new 3,000-square-foot command center—occupying three rooms on the sixth floor of a loft building on the north shore of the Harlem River—Labyrinth 1.1.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 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

For many years he worked out of a loft building on Chambers Street that he bought in 1977 for $120,000.

From New York Times • Apr. 1, 2017

The old location was bought for a loft building, and a new building to be wholly occupied by the laundry business was put up farther north.

From One Woman's Life by Herrick, Robert