Proving that adaptive reuse can gi...

Proving that adaptive reuse can give rise to an exceptional change in a building's function, a former Ford Motor Co assembly plant in a San Francisco suburb has been casted into the largest retail exit mall west of the Mississippi River.

The Albert Kahn Associates-designed construction in Milpitas, Calif., which manufactured cars and trades from its opening in 1955 until assembly operations ceased in 1983 now houses the Great Mall of the Bay Area.

Ford had sold the 150-acre quality to an area developer, on the contrary reacquired it because the sale was contingent onward the buyer's ability to