Analysis of adaptive reuse of industrial brick mill buildings located at major rivers along the Southeast Atlantic seaboard fall line

Revitalization is one of the most commonly discussed topics in the world of planning today, and how one might reuse a building is also an important object of discussion. The planners ask how they might preserve or repurpose the decaying buildings so that they are not merely standing there and rotting. Some argue that many such buildings should be destroyed in order to pave way for newer and better buildings, others argue that whenever possible those buildings should be renovated and repurposed instead. The latter group makes a solid argument and one of the types of buildings often being repurposed is old industrial mill buildings. This paper seeks to identify how 19th century mill buildings that lie along the intersections of major rivers and the Atlantic Seaboard Fall Line are repurposed, to see if there is any trend in how they are reused, and how it may apply elsewhere.