Another Angry WomanMay 18, 2023

We are now three years into the shift from office working to hybrid/home-based and the only strategy commercial property developers have is paying for advertorials bleating about how everyone should work in offices rather than idk pivoting their model.

Capitalism is not a driver of innovation, or they'd have fucking innovated.

Show threadKate WatsonMay 18, 2023
@stavvers I mean imagine if they invested in making their commercial properties somewhere great, somewhere people really *wanted* to be, at least some of the time, for a change, even if it meant an annoying and expensive commute?
Show threadAilbheMay 18, 2023
@antinomy @stavvers Google offices used to do that -- playrooms and napping rooms and food and whathaveyou. It kind of worked.
Show threadThe Actual BrianMay 18, 2023

@ailbhe @antinomy @stavvers office buildings are empty.

Real estate isn't trying to find something else to do with it. They're just trying to get people back into the office.

Saying cities are innovating and turning empty office buildings into affordable housing.
You can even put services, restaurants, entertainment, and child care on some of the floors.

They just have to try something different.

Show threadChris Broome
@TheActualBrian @ailbhe @antinomy @stavvers cities aren’t in the worst position to recontextualize old office buildings. Suburban office parks though, those single-use monstrosities that are purposefully far away from housing and retail, they’re in for a rough slog
May 20, 2023 at 12:05amIceCubesApp
Show threadThe Actual BrianMay 20, 2023
@cbroome @ailbhe @antinomy @stavvers
I'm not sure what those are like.
Do they have surrounding land? If so, housing can attract business.