These buildings would require enormous retrofit to bring to residential standards - and then - they're not even zoned for it. The same problem that's driving t

These buildings would require enormous retrofit to bring to residential standards - and then - they're not even zoned for it. The same problem that's driving the empty space, i.e. 'remote' should 'solve' the housing problem for those remoting, in that there's unlimited inexpensive places to live in the US. It's just expensive to live in specific places, i.e. near that tower. Other than maybe some industrial buildings retrofitted to lofts + civic issues around that i.e. sidewalks, buses, zoning yada yada it's unlikely you'll ever see these kinds of things retrofitted. Give it another 2 years, this space will get used one way or another.