Manchester is a great city.
Unfortunately it is not representative of most medium and large cities in the country.
If you put that same building in Lawrence, MA or Camden, NJ or Baltimore, MD or Atlanta, GA or Chicago, IL etc etc etc it would be a slum in ten years.
Brady Sullivan did a mill conversion down in Clinton, MA. I looked at an apartment with my son about three years ago. The apartments were really cool inside. Many of them had 20’ high ceilings with a loft and a spiral staircase to get up to that loft overlooking the living room/kitchen area. Then it had 1-2 bedrooms off that main floor. Still with 20’ ceilings.
The problem was right down the street was the hood. We spoke to a couple tenants who said there had been break ins of cars in their parking lot. They advised against living there. My son found an in law apartment above someones garage in Groton, MA(one of nicest towns in the Nashoba Valley are of MA).