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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

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

Ernestine disliked leaving her family, as she called "number 232," but she judged that even they would not remain long after all their light had been cut off by the loft building.

From One Woman's Life by Herrick, Robert

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