Selling Luxury #Apartments Where #OliverTwist Once Asked for Gruel

source: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/23/business/dickens-condos-oliver-twist-workhouse.html

In a #city beloved by wealthy real estate investors from around the world, the plan makes financial sense, but this may be the most benighted condo conversion in the #history of condo conversions, with problems that go far beyond constraints placed on how the building can be altered. The property includes land that in the 18th and 19th centuries served as a pauper’s graveyard. Last year, archaeologists started exhuming bodies, roughly 1,000 in all.

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