I have a feeling this will become more common in the future as suburbs like Southfield and Troy have to deal with the excess office space in their communities.

Another suburban office building looks to go residential

Birmingham-based Cypress Partners paid $5.95 million for the 99,000-square-foot Troy office building at 295 Kirts Blvd. that was formerly occupied by Kelly Services Inc.


The development team lead by Mike Parks and Jack Parks said they plan to convert that existing three-story into 90 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments, while the surface parking space behind it would be turned into a pair of four-story buildings with 55 units each.


Mike Parks said interior demolition on the former Kelly Services Inc. building, which had been used for back-office staff, is close to starting and that the redevelopment of that building would be completed before the new ones are built.
https://www.crainsdetroit.com/real-e...go-residential