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There probably aren't any, or aren't more than 3 or 4. Have you been to Charleston? There is not much city and not much downtown there to have many loft apartments. It's all bars, offices, or stores. I think whatever was converted to lofts 10-12 years ago was done as condos that are sold. It's an idea that only recently caught on.
Lofts and open floor plans lack privacy. That's okay for a single or a childfree couple. But not so great for people with children or for a roommate scenario. It's more of an urban thing, too. Charleston doesn't have that many affluent singles and/or childfree urban professional couples or affluent gay couples to create demand for that style of housing. And like I said, there's not that much of a downtown there. Gay males easily bought houses on Lee St. and other less fashionable parts of the East End because prices were low and the questionable neighborhood was no threat to them.
Most of the "newer" apartment buildings were built in the '70s and maybe early '80s. Townhouses were the late '70s / early '80s fad. Probably not much happened after that because the chemical companies and gas co., phone co., etc. had all started to stagnate and then shrink.
It would certainly be cool if some of the older office buildings had some of their top floors converted into penthouse style suites. I know that was in the works for the old Kanawha Valley Bank Building, at least there was a person that was going to renovate the top two floors for himself, until he realized it would cost 100's of thousands of dollars.
If you talk to many people that live in and around Charleston, there just isn't much of a desire to be couped up in a condo or apartment when you can buy large houses very close to the city for pretty cheap. You can even buy some really nice victorian houses right in the city for fairly cheap too. Charleston just doesn't have much of that urban, hipster crowd that has repopulated so many of American cities in the last 20 years.
I think the big warehouse building (or whatever it is) outside the outfield of Appalachian Power Park would make great apartments/lofts. Of course, you need plexi-glass for windows because of the potential home runs.
Didn't answer me question, where are the modern apartments/town homes then?
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