> The impact is the same regardless of event. It isn’t though. Eminent domain increases property values. Pandemics and terrorism decrease it. > So, given a

> The impact is the same regardless of event. It isn’t though. Eminent domain increases property values. Pandemics and terrorism decrease it. > So, given a standard tech business, you buy what you need for positions that cannot be performed remotely and estimated space for those workers that desire to work at that location hopefully in a location close to where these workers live (which is likely not in a typical downtown city location). This is divorced from the reality I live in. My city developed a business district complete with housing and entertainment near downtown. That area is dead now and the city is understandably concerned. It wasn’t a bad idea before but now it hasn’t worked out. But I can’t blame the businesses who invested. They seem to have made all the right decisions. It wasn’t clearly a mistake pre-pandemic. In fact it was all very progressive and forward-looking.