Offices converted into studio, two-bedroom apartments. Roof to feature penthouse.

For Shannon Boisvert, a 22-year-old aspiring teacher, it was a chance to live somewhere with true character. And for Bill Taormina, an impossible dream became a reality as the first tenants moved into his historic restoration project the past week. One of the last standing historical buildings in the city, the mixed residential and commercial-use building sits in an area the city is desperately trying to revive as its identifiable core. A former office building, the 30,000-square-foot Samueli Cramer Building began its transformation in 2001, the year Taormina bought it for ill.6 million from the city's Redevelopment Agency and set out to bring it back to its formerglory.