With office usage hovering near 50 percent of pre-pandemic levels, cities are putting the underutilized space to new use growing food
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.
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.
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.
Again, all i see are vegetables that wont help with food security.
It will help a bit. I’m not a fan of these light grown plants really though. Too much energy for too little gain
Can’t grow much else in vertical farms. Growing staples is hard and could not compete with prices from those grown outside.
What you see for sale from vertical farms is vegetative plant organs (not seeds/fruits) with water making up almost all of the mass.
If the city has vacant offices, it can generally afford grains.
