But its corporate office towers have proven a tougher sell to startups accustomed to Dumbo lofts.
On the Delaware River waterfront, industrial buildings and mills have been turned into lofts.
Think of Manchester's warehouses or Manhattan's meat-packing district, now converted into clubs and trendy lofts.
Guys opting for the "Five Diamond" package by Sky Lofts at MGM are immersed in luxury.
Regis and Plaza, while other clients are in discussions to reserve space at city clubs and private lofts.
She says the lofts create tax revenue that can be used to build more permanent housing for the homeless.
Most properties, like Sky Lofts, can customize a package based on your interests.
Big and cheap, the lofts allowed artists to sleep among their works.
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They've been collecting them, looking in lofts and in shops, looking for the ones they didn't get when they were a child.
The city has been trying to clean-up the area for years, building expensive lofts and upscale restaurants and venues next to the poverty-stricken streets.
In the past 12 months a total of 19 so-called "cupboard gardens" have been discovered in houses, lofts and outhouses across Dumfries and Galloway.
The 124 rooms and lofts are decorated with damask carpets and oak and leather panels, while the bathrooms have glass tile walls and Molton Brown amenities.
Even if the heads, shafts, lies, lofts and weights of McIlroy's new clubs are identical to his old ones, however, they won't all feel the same.
Clandestine restaurants, hair salons, bars, clubs, and dance studios are being set up in warehouses, underused lofts and the houses and apartments of creative under-the-radar entrepreneurs.
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Artists priced out of their lofts by the conversion of their no-longer-shabby spaces into costly condominiums moved still farther toward the city's fringe as the downtown scene took off.
Many of the people who populate the restaurants and lofts in downtown rely directly or indirectly on the university, the hospitals or state and local government for their livelihoods.
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"We've screened a lot of compounds...and this is the most promising drug we have come across, " says Richard Lofts of the Armed Forces Radiobiology Research Institute in Bethesda, Md.
So when people arrived at the skyboxes -- or lofts, as they're called there -- they were greeted with Gallo Family Vineyards Sonoma Reserve Chardonnay (2006) and Cabernet Sauvignon (2005).
Renderings of the development, known as Marina Lofts, show three large towers that look like stacks of white bricks, with chunks missing and a jagged split between two of the buildings.
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Two years later renovations are under way, and the buildings are expected to house bourbon-themed restaurants and nightlife spots, adding to the success of nearby projects like the mixed-use Whiskey Row Lofts.
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Thousands of lofts have either been built or are scheduled to be soon, which is a huge turnaround for a section of LA that had been largely ignored for the past 30 years.
Ofgem said two separate schemes ensured that more than 3.9 million lofts and 2.5 million cavity walls were insulated, and 150, 000 vulnerable households received at least one energy efficiency measure by the end of 2012.
And finally there was work underway to develop and showcase the talent the area will need, building on an existing set of skills among the coders, designers, artists and new media types already populating the lofts and studios of east London.
Ms. COLLINS: (Singing) As we go marching, marching in the beauty of the day, a million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray, are touched with all the radiance as a sudden sun discloses, for the people hear us singing: bread and roses, bread and roses.
The Rice Mill Lofts, a riverfront apartment complex that Cummings plans to turn into a hub for creative-types looking for long-term vacation stays in New Orleans, was built in 2011 using reclaimed wood from the Mississippi River and is decorated with graffiti leftover from when the building sat vacant after Katrina.
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