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By David Hay<br />
In San Diego's Hillcrest neighborhood, a loft complex challenges the conventions of apartment design -- and assumptions about rental living. In the wake of the popped real estate bubble, architect Lloyd Russell set out to design and develop a loft complex for "young people out there who have had a hard time holding on to their first homes," he said. "Their expectations about how they wanted to live had expanded, but their ability to pay for them had contracted." The result is one-bedroom apartments loaded with design features that you normally don't see in rentals, as well as residents who happily set aside the dream of house ownership for a cool, modern apartment complex.

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