RECAST is the A-to-Z field guide to adaptive reuse real estate development — what to check, what to ask, and what to budget for, before you turn an old building into its next life.
Most real estate education is written for ground-up construction. Adaptive reuse plays by different rules — the building was already a decision someone else made, decades ago, and now it's yours to unmake or work with. RECAST breaks the entire process into 26 sheets, one per letter, from the first phone call about a site to the day you decide whether to sell, refinance, or hold.
Each sheet gives you the plain-English version first. Open the field notes for the version we'd tell a client mid-project — numbers, pitfalls, and the questions that actually come up.
Grounded in actual mill, office, and industrial conversions — not textbook theory.
Read it in five minutes, or open every field note and read it like a case file.
Acquisition to occupancy — the letters follow the order the decisions actually happen in.
RECAST teaches the framework. If you've actually got a property — a mill, an old office building, something with good bones — the team at Manetta Architecture + Design can look at it directly.
Zoning, structure, capital, and code — it's all knowable before you buy. Start at Sheet A.