But to those within the manufacturing community that until recently thrived in the old buildings, and to many who live in the low-lying houses and apartment buildings surrounding it, the conversion bodes the end of something vital.
The low-lying and funky apartment buildings in the growing neighborhood evoke green living and were built with a variety of sustainability measures; the Bella Center conference space, where this meeting is being held and the December one will occur, sits under a slowly tilting 75-meter-tall wind turbine that Vestas, its builder, tells me provides the energy that about 300 families would use.
It was, and remains, a solid blue-collar area of low-lying four- or six-story apartment buildings in tawny brick, filigreed down their fronts with iron fire escapes.
It would see Dharavi's low-lying shanties bulldozed and replaced by apartment blocks.
Forty-five percent of the housing authority's apartment buildings are in low-lying evacuation zones.
The apartment is furnished with modern low-lying furniture, largely bought at the Conran store.
This is the most vulnerable part of the world apart from the low-lying islands, and unlike the low-lying islands, Bengal has 250 million people.
I was walking recently with a friend near Stuyvesant Town, on the East Side of Manhattan, when we spied a low-lying plant, about knee-high, growing just outside an apartment building.
Peter Cooke Funeral Homeone Funeral Home on 87th Street near First Avenue, on a Yorkville block dominated by low-lying tenements, not far from the crime scene or from the apartment she shared with her husband, Walter Adam.
The high-rise buildings inside the compound, with their bright blue swimming pools on apartment balconies, jar against the dusty red roofs of the surrounding, low-lying favelas.
