There's been a lot of construction around the country, I wonder how other cities are faring. They're even talking about changing some of these buildings to residential through urban planning. Is this the start of the bubble popping?
Seattle's situation may change once Amazon starts enforcing their full-time return-to-office policy in 2025. I expect other companies will follow suit. Though in the mean time there is more room for the office market to fall; another Seattle Times article from August mentioned:
Seattle’s downtown is now second only to San Francisco’s for risk of office loan foreclosures, according to a recent analysis by Kaplan Group, a debt collection firm, which warns that high-risk cities “could see a wave of loan defaults or even localized fire sales.”
I would love to see some of that empty office space convert to other uses. Every city's office/retail core feels soulless if nobody lives there, or even has a reason to go there after 5pm.
I don't wish the market to full on pop, but a mini pop would be nice. You can't build, build, build, price fix and then expect to have a nice city that people can or want to live in.
even worse than during the Great Recession,
The difference is all the working is being done without the need for those offices.
The difference is all the working is being done without the need for those offices.
That's been always the case though, they were forced to reckon with it.
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