Empty office buildings may meet the same fate as zombie shopping malls

[MegaTronBomb!]

Malls and smaller story buildings could be better re-purposed for city services,schools and consolidating small businesses.

But the real problem is that a lot of downtown areas,office parks and malls are built in places that are devoid of anything that people require in neighborhoods.


Now, those giant distribution centers,warehouses and shyt like that should just be razed/re-zoned and converted into rent controlled housing based off whatever the median income is in that region. them shyts sit empty for YEARS and nobody bats an eye.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

 

[SadimirPutin]

Corporate landlords are behind the scenes with politicians and companies BEGGING them to force people to come back into offices

That in office productivity schpiel is a farce

 

[CopiousX]

Corporate landlords are behind the scenes with politicians and companies BEGGING them to force people to come back into offices

That in office productivity schpiel is a farce

Nah, not just landlords.


Small business owners too. There are dozens of small and medium businesses in most Business districts that rely solely on that captive market of 9-5(ers) who can't travel far for lunch or can't get daily necessities farther away cause of traffic prior or after work.


You gotta think of the city grocery stores, bodegas, print shops, tailors, food carts, bookshops, etc. As well as the medium chains like corner bakery or trader joes. And these little enterprises are hemoraging employees with their own bills to pay and families at home.


In my own city I've noticed countless vacancies in strip malls and 1st floor shops. Windows boarded up like it's the hood, but those shop are next to billion dollar office buildings. What we are really looking at in such eerie landscapes is folks on the unemployment line.

 

[SadimirPutin]

Nah, not just landlords.


Small business owners too. There are dozens of small and medium businesses in most Business districts that rely solely on that captive market of 9-5(ers) who can't travel far for lunch or can't get daily necessities farther away cause of traffic prior or after work.


You gotta think of the city grocery stores, bodegas, print shops, tailors, food carts, bookshops, etc. As well as the medium chains like corner bakery or trader joes. And these little enterprises are hemoraging employees with their own bills to pay and families at home.


In my own city I've noticed countless vacancies in strip malls and 1st floor shops. Windows boarded up like it's the hood, but those shop are next to billion dollar office buildings. What we are really looking it in such eerie landscapes is folks on the unemployment line.

I understand and I sympathize.

However the same way companies say people aren't entitled to jobs....those entities aren't entitled to customers and rents.

I dont dispute your thesis of the interconnected food chain of business and consumers.

But those companies have laid off people by the tens of thousands and those employees are expected to adapt. Business should learn to adapt too

 

[King Poetic]

It’s over for office buildings in downtown areas

1. People are working from home and majority of the commuters live 20 plus minutes away

2. Parking fees/traffic is another reason why people rather work from home

3. Saving money on gas, MTA , child care, etc etc…

 

[Spence]

What also hurts is that successful companies know a lot of talent is found in cheaper areas or further away from a reasonable commute than the office. So they are forced to either hire sub par talent, or the best talent for a cheaper rate that’s remote which makes less of a need for an office/floor paying rent when the model works well without a physical space.

 

[The Pledge]

Just convert it to low income housing

But I don’t feel bad. People not trying to commute 20+ minutes just to sit in an office and do the same shyt they could do at home

Always expected this to be the natural progression. The infrastructure is there. Just redo the plumbing and you’re Gucci.

I’ve seen a video of people doing that shyt with old malls.

 

[Scottie Drippin]

Nah, not just landlords.


Small business owners too. There are dozens of small and medium businesses in most Business districts that rely solely on that captive market of 9-5(ers) who can't travel far for lunch or can't get daily necessities farther away cause of traffic prior or after work.


You gotta think of the city grocery stores, bodegas, print shops, tailors, food carts, bookshops, etc. As well as the medium chains like corner bakery or trader joes. And these little enterprises are hemoraging employees with their own bills to pay and families at home.


In my own city I've noticed countless vacancies in strip malls and 1st floor shops. Windows boarded up like it's the hood, but those shop are next to billion dollar office buildings. What we are really looking at in such eerie landscapes is folks on the unemployment line.

That's because of a nation based on car transit. People still need to leave their homes to do things, they will do them close and nearby wbere it makes sense and is convenient. But this is a country where traveling to and from work is expensive, dangerous, and time consuming.


Every argument for return to the office really boils down to how much our society is not meant for humans and their wants/needs.

If there's a strip mall with business dying .ore than 10-15 minutes walk away from the community its allegedly serving it should fail.

 

[Spence]

Always expected this to be the natural progression. The infrastructure is there. Just redo the plumbing and you’re Gucci.

I’ve seen a video of people doing that shyt with old malls.

I saw someone convert an elementary school into their own house and thought that was genius. They had 30 bedrooms, a private gym, private movie theater, circle driveway etc

 

[DrexlersFade]

As they fukking should we pushing against the grain anyways wasting all that electricity how long we think this shyt supposed to last.

 

[IIVI]

fukk that Jesse Blout guy

Dude bought an office building thinking he got a good deal


Thinking having a nice office will draw people back in

Hold that bag bytch

Like they say on the internet shyt is Joever

 

[Orbital-Fetus]

The era of anti social living. And I'm not crying for offices just don't like this shut in lifestyle. If you don't have to go to the office that's a win but don't just sit at home. Make some moves outside. Talk to strangers.

fukk that. Interacting with other units in real life is not the move.

 

[IIVI]

We better not see a bailout.

Let them own it.

You want some of that money back?

Make cheap housing.

 

[Heelish]

Why?