With office usage hovering near 50 percent of pre-pandemic levels, cities are putting the underutilized space to new use growing food

With office usage hovering near 50 percent of pre-pandemic levels, cities are putting the underutilized space to new use growing food

  • sndrtj@feddit.nlEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’ll be curious to see if any of the project survive long term. A similar project in my city unfortunately collapsed a couple of years ago due to rising cost.

    • Sam BOT@lemmy.worldOPBEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      TBH I think in most situations this excess office capacity could be most useful as affordable housing to bring a degree of sanity to rent and house prices.

      • mercurly@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        1 year ago

        I think you’re both right. We need more building designed to be flex spaces. It’s impossible to guess what we need 20 years from now. Let’s make sure new construction can handle a wide range of use.