> “The roof itself will cost over $1 million to fix, and nobody’s going to do that. We work around it.”

Doesn't seem like it

> Tearing down a building meant to withstand a magnitude 10 earthquake isn’t a viable option, either. “This building is gonna be around 1,000 years from now,” Sauro says of the reactor housing.

> Does the world-class acoustics lab earn so much money, it can upkeep the industrial facility its housed in?

Obviously not, but there isn't much else the space can be used for. Power plants are extremely polluted because the PCBs from the turbines and transformers drip into the concrete floors and stay there forever, so these spaces generally can't be repurposed in any meaningful way.

Even if it only covers a fifth of the costs, this wave of reuse is very sound.