Remote work is starting to hit office rents

Re:Remote work is starting to hit office rents by dehrmann on Thursday March 23, 2023 @03:26AM (#35271494)

This is half of it, but plumbing, windows, layout, and elevators are very different between residential and offices.

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Re:Remote work is starting to hit office rents by swiftcoder on Thursday March 23, 2023 @03:44AM (#35271590)

Nonetheless, commercial->residential conversions tend to be pretty popular. All those industrial-themed urban lofts in other cities sell/rent just fine

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Re:Remote work is starting to hit office rents by gregshap on Thursday March 23, 2023 @04:24AM (#35271800)

Different converting the 1890s brick 4 story buildings vs the 1970s or 2000s or 2010s office buildings.

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Re:Remote work is starting to hit office rents by AlchemistCamp on Thursday March 23, 2023 @05:16AM (#35272086)

Has SF really built much in the past 20 years? Comparing what I saw there with old movies it didn’t seem like it.

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Re:Remote work is starting to hit office rents by joenot443 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:46AM (#35274710)

Considering the amount of raw engineering ingenuity concentrated in San Francisco, I’m pretty confident they’d be able to figure it out.

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Re:Remote work is starting to hit office rents by gregshap on Thursday March 23, 2023 @01:01PM (#35277739)

Sure but the rent roll would barely cover the AWS bill

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Re:Remote work is starting to hit office rents by scarab92 on Thursday March 23, 2023 @10:25AM (#35275313)

In high land value areas demolishing and rebuilding can be a commercially viable alternate to conversions as well.

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