Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Just Hit a New High

Re:Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Just Hit a New High by grepLeigh on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:38AM (#33249033)

Zoning is the important piece. In a live/work building, tradespeople can run appointment-based services businesses like:

Hair/nail salons, waxing and esthetician services, makeup and photo studios, etc.

Every nail salon in 10 square-block radius of me (in SF, SOMA) closed during the pandemic. SF residential rents aren't affordable for a trade/services businessperson. Tradespeople stopped commuting 2+ hours into the city when businesses fled. For a city to thrive, services/trade labor needs to live near their work.

On a personal level, I want to run a small manufacturing shop to dog-food my own product (https://printnanny.ai/ - automation for 3D printer ecommerce shops).

My options are currently:

* Move to a single-family home in surburbia, so I can work out of a garage/shed.

* Lease a business-zoned office suite in SF, commute every day.

* Live in a building zoned for business/residential, so I can legally run an office without inviting ire from an SF condo HOA.

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Re:Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Just Hit a New High by achenet on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @02:47PM (#33252062)

and also,

* leave the Bay Area and go somewhere with higher quality of life and lower real estate prices (read: basically anywhere that isn't Tokyo or NYC), go for residential housing + commercial property

unless you have some reason to pick SF?

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Re:Office Vacancy Rate in San Francisco Just Hit a New High by grepLeigh on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:04PM (#33253074)

I like it here! I might even love living here - at least enough to want to dig in and tackle tractable problems, like converting commercial real estate to housing supply.

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