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Re:100 Salesforce employees work in its 61-story HQ by jollybean on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:18AM (#28324259)
These buildings would require enormous retrofit to bring to residential standards - and then - they're not even zoned for it.

The same problem that's driving the empty space, i.e. 'remote' should 'solve' the housing problem for those remoting, in that there's unlimited inexpensive places to live in the US. It's just expensive to live in specific places, i.e. near that tower.

Other than maybe some industrial buildings retrofitted to lofts + civic issues around that i.e. sidewalks, buses, zoning yada yada it's unlikely you'll ever see these kinds of things retrofitted.

Give it another 2 years, this space will get used one way or another.

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Re:100 Salesforce employees work in its 61-story HQ by duxup on Friday August 27, 2021 @12:42AM (#28324375)
They converted an fairly tall office tower into condos not far from me.

In short, it wasn't a very profitable venture due to costs of retrofiting it and folks who live there...still feel like they live in an office building.

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Re:100 Salesforce employees work in its 61-story HQ by bombcar on Friday August 27, 2021 @01:07AM (#28324479)
Even with skyscrapers it’s often more cost effective to level it and start anew. For the standard office park setup even Moreso.
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