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Every week we’re featuring one of our subscribers as a way to say thank you! This week, it’s Jenn Schultz, a partner in the Boston office of law firm Nixon Peabody.

She’s a familiar face to anyone working on major development projects in Boston, but she also oversees the firm’s real estate development work in its Manchester, New Hampshire, Providence, Rhode Island, Rochester, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City.

But the biggest thing she’s working on these days is probably a campaign to spread knowledge of how to convert downtown postwar office towers into viable housing.

Assembling a team of experts from architecture firm Gensler, engineering firms AECOM Tishman and AECOM Hunt, local brokerage experts and her own staff at Nixon, Schultz has traveled the country coordinating case studies on various skyscrapers, like Boston’s One Lincoln office tower.

Her and her team’s contention: Creative deployment of tenant amenities, from storage units to gyms, game rooms and other functions that don’t need natural light, can create efficient and attractive apartments.

Paired with a willingness to only partially convert towers to residential, treating the apartments essentially as a single large office user served by its own elevator, she argues, apartments can help fill long-term vacancies even in class A towers.

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