A sprawling industrial neighborhood built atop the skeletal remains of a 20th-century garment district, The Laceworks has been repurposed layer by layer into one of GLMZ's most densely inhabited residential warrens. Converted textile factories now house thousands of mid-to-low income residents in stacked micro-apartments, their facades draped in a permanent tangle of laundry lines, fiber-optic cables, and handmade signage that gives the district its name. The original brick architecture survives beneath decades of patchwork renovation, visible in archways and loading docks now serving as storefronts, shrines, and impromptu community spaces.