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Office space is very expensive to convert to residential, you have large rectangle with windows on the perimeter only, weird elevator/stair layout, insufficient
by progbits 3y ago
Office space is very expensive to convert to residential, you have large rectangle with windows on the perimeter only, weird elevator/stair layout, insufficient plumbing for many individual bathrooms, and poor ventilation for kitchens.
- ghaff 3y agoFurthermore, I'm skeptical that if commercial real estate crashes (because far fewer people are working in cities) that there will be continued demand to live in those cities. There seems to be an underlying assumption that the only reason people wouldn't want to live in a city is the cost--and that's not true for a lot of folks.