So we had to create apartments from a variety of sizes and architectural styles".
The agency is scrambling to create apartments in unused schools, monasteries and church-owned vacant lots.
USUALLY, people create apartments in their own image, renovating and decorating the space to match the way they live.
Passed by the New York Legislature in 1955, the Mitchell-Lama law was intended to create apartments for moderate- and middle-income families.
SP Setia and Sime Darby have offered to create apartments and shops on the site while preserving the facade of the 79-year-old power station and its four chimney stacks, which have fallen into disrepair.
Sixty percent of Portico is now sold and some buyers, which include Canadians, French and Italians, have already combined smaller units to create apartments in excess of 7,000 square feet.
In January Classified Ventures bought Visual Properties, a provider of on-line apartment listings, to create apartments.com classifieds.
"You create apartments that are 20% larger than the marketplace," says Louis J. Siegel, a principal in Diversified Investment Associates in Timonium, Md., which is completing the luxurious Marque at Heritage Hunt in northern Virginia.
For example, Carnegie Park, a condo-conversion on 94th Street and Third Avenue, is offering "uber combos" to buyers when possible to create apartments with at least four bedrooms, in addition to amenities including a swimming pool and children's playroom, according to Streeteasy.
In postwar buildings, which seldom had apartments with more than two or three bedrooms, some buyers have created apartments never envisioned by the builders.
