It’s the real estate developers that are in a pinch for building unneeded office buildings and the business that own too many of them. It’s the reason that bosses are bitching about in person work.
But also to a point, it will take a significant amount of work to convert office space to residential. Just utilities alone will be an adventure, and you’d better hope the building was set up with decent truck lines down the core of the structure to begin with. It’s not like “hey let’s throw up some walls, boom, apartments.” You need adequate power distribution, and water/sewer connections to each apartment to fulfill each unit having it’s own kitchen and bathroom. Commercial spaces are generally build to accommodate different usage.
Agreed. This is a good idea overall, but the implementation smells like a bailout of commercial real estate developers to me.
It’s the real estate developers that are in a pinch for building unneeded office buildings and the business that own too many of them. It’s the reason that bosses are bitching about in person work.
Ding dong ding!
But also to a point, it will take a significant amount of work to convert office space to residential. Just utilities alone will be an adventure, and you’d better hope the building was set up with decent truck lines down the core of the structure to begin with. It’s not like “hey let’s throw up some walls, boom, apartments.” You need adequate power distribution, and water/sewer connections to each apartment to fulfill each unit having it’s own kitchen and bathroom. Commercial spaces are generally build to accommodate different usage.