Email address: Leave this field empty if you're human: Property Manager and Community Creator Mariana Beer in one of the renovated studio apartments at Factory on Willow. Photo/Carol Robidoux MANCHESTER, NH – It’s been two years in the making but it’s finally move-in day at the Factory on Willow, something like Manchester has never seen before. Now open for living and creating, 61 units that double as workspace tucked inside a modern open-concept “smart-building” interior wrapped in a renovated 1880 stately brick factory. Turning the defunct Cohas Shoe manufacturing plant into apartments where tenants are invited to work, live, create and connect has been no small feat for Liz Hitchcock and her team at Orbit Group, pushing the limits of what already exists with this project by planting the seeds of Manchester’s future all around it.