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

At a loft building on West 41st Street in the garment district, 10 of the 15 tenants are technology companies, including Roku.

From New York Times • Jan. 22, 2020

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

Of course there is that loft building opposite, but it's thin and don't take much light....

From One Woman's Life by Herrick, Robert