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A comment on A lot of offices are still empty and it's becoming a major risk for the economy. Parent comment
- vacant buildings suck, but there's no urgent cost to ignoring them for 5-10 years
- multi-use "free-for-all" buildings like those big apartment blocks in Hongkong. Doesn't mesh w/ western sensibility.
- convert to apartments. Works in theory, but city centre would have to remap target customer from <office worker> to <resident>.
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- vacant buildings suck, but there's no urgent cost to ignoring them for 5-10 years
- multi-use "free-for-all" buildings like those big apartment blocks in Hongkong. Doesn't mesh w/ western sensibility.
- convert to apartments. Works in theory, but city centre would have to remap target customer from <office worker> to <resident>.