I love exposed brick, I was going to pay 1,900 a month, a foolish sum but I wanted to live downtown, for an a converted old textile mill condo they converted into lofts but it was actually sold to an investor. It was probably not too different than some of those old cigar factories in havana, high ceilings, tons of light,huge windows.
You see them all over the US, especially in older industrial areas like Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago ,lower east side Manhattan, there are some great ones now in Atlanta and Houston I have heard. Almost anywhere there was manufacturing. You see them in every downtown.
The ultimate bachelor pad. I just wish Havana was free, it seems like it was like Costa Rica times 100 in its heyday