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Pinterest pays $89.5 million to terminate San Francisco office lease(and the hits keep on a comin)
SFGATE ^ | August 30, 2020 | Katie Dowd

Posted on 08/30/2020 8:23:59 PM PDT by Vendome

Pinterest, a social-sharing site popular for pinning recipes, home inspiration and more, has canceled its large San Francisco office lease.

The lease was for 88 Bluxome, a high-rise complex to-be-constructed near Pinterest's existing San Francisco headquarters. The company cited a shift to work-from-home due to the coronavirus pandemic in its decision. Pinterest will keep its current city offices, however.

The company cited a shift to work-from-home due to the coronavirus pandemic in its decision. Pinterest will keep its current city offices, however.

The termination fee for the 490,000-square-foot office space is $89.5 million, Bloomberg reports.

The change in working life may also trigger a change in Bay Area demographics. In an anonymous survey of 4,400 tech workers, two-thirds of respondents said they would consider leaving the region permanently if allowed to work from home.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: a; california; city; civilunrest; coronavirus; economy; killing; softly; taxes
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1 posted on 08/30/2020 8:23:59 PM PDT by Vendome
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To: Vendome

This is just the beginning


2 posted on 08/30/2020 8:30:44 PM PDT by JerryBlackwell (some animals are more equal than others)
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To: Vendome

Tahoe to be soon WAY more overrun than it has been for decades.


3 posted on 08/30/2020 8:31:43 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Vendome

#NancyAndGavinsSanFranFreako


4 posted on 08/30/2020 8:32:26 PM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: JerryBlackwell; Paladin2

Yep


5 posted on 08/30/2020 8:32:54 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Vendome

Unpossible.
It is a worker’s paradise, they assure us this kind of thing would never happen in their fruitopia.


6 posted on 08/30/2020 8:33:45 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: JerryBlackwell

A MAJOR reckoning is about to happen to Hollywood and social media. The carnage and gnashing will be extreme.


7 posted on 08/30/2020 8:34:13 PM PDT by Monty22002
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To: Vendome

I work for a major and they have told everyone that leases will be consolidated.

Downtown everywhere is going to take a serious hit.

Production did not drop with work at home policies.

Expect management to take a serious hit as well.


8 posted on 08/30/2020 8:36:38 PM PDT by eyedigress (Joe, put your mask on!)
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To: Paladin2

North Idaho is really overrun. Massive subdivisions being built everywhere. The prairie farmland is getting built with houses, farms are rapidly disappearing. Real estate prices are soaring.

It’s all very sad to see.


9 posted on 08/30/2020 8:36:43 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom ("And oft conducted by historic truth, We tread the long extent of backward time.")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

That same thing is happening here but for slightly differing reasons.
NY is actively driving farms put of business through chicanery and onerous BS.
Meanwhile they put out advertisements every now and then gaslighting farmers by saying “NY is proud of their dairy farmers!”
Two of what had been the remaining 4 dairy farms have closed by me.
One through EPA malfeasance, the other through the state repeatedly “reassessing their tax”.
Then say hello to mushroom houses, they pop up overnight where farms once existed.


10 posted on 08/30/2020 8:43:15 PM PDT by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Vendome

Home, Home on the Range
Where the drunks and the homeless don’t stay
Where seldom is heard a four letter word
And the skies are not smoggy all day...


11 posted on 08/30/2020 8:43:59 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: Vendome

FTA: The termination fee for the 490,000-square-foot office space is $89.5 million

Wow. How bad is it to want to pay that price to get away.

This guy is a tv & movie reviewer and he and his wife are moving out of the state.

San Francisco’s Mass EXODUS | Over HALF of SF’s Storefronts CLOSED Forever Including My Wife’s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WijKpSJlPV8


12 posted on 08/30/2020 8:45:42 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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To: Vendome
In an anonymous survey of 4,400 tech workers, two-thirds of respondents said they would consider leaving the region permanently if allowed to work from home.

What? What?What? There are people who don't want to step in piles of human shit on their way to work? What's the world coming to?

13 posted on 08/30/2020 8:47:37 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats and their butt boys in the press are snakes in the grass - mob rule, violence, destruction)
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To: JerryBlackwell

Yep. Commercial real estate is probably a bad place to be invested right now. ...And, TBH, for the foreseeable future.


14 posted on 08/30/2020 8:50:57 PM PDT by softengine
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"In an anonymous survey of 4,400 tech workers, two-thirds of respondents said they would consider leaving the region permanently if allowed to work from home."

The financial impact of that will be enormous. Big malls to strip malls. Restaurants. Sheetz and WaWa. And the list goes on.
15 posted on 08/30/2020 8:53:45 PM PDT by softengine
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To: Vendome

covid only sped this up. This is just another cycle of change forming. Large offices and the costs that come with them are certain to have concerns going forward.


16 posted on 08/30/2020 8:57:39 PM PDT by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yes, the Rathdrum prairie area has long been turning into Spokane’s bedroom commuter community. That pace has accelerated of late. Rural property is going bonkers as well. My corner of North Idaho is still relatively quiet, though. A lot of these West side and California refugees are not prepared for the winters here, though Last couple of weeks of August until the snow flies is Getting Ready for Winter time. Woe unto those who are not prepared. We’ve got our wood and propane all lined up, so we’ll be set.


17 posted on 08/30/2020 9:02:41 PM PDT by Noumenon (When Hunter Biden sent out for a dildo for his strip club soiree, they brought back Adam Schiff.)
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To: softengine
The financial impact of that will be enormous. Big malls to strip malls. Restaurants. Sheetz and WaWa. And the list goes on.

And because they'll no longer be crammed into stressful big cities, they'll start becoming Republicans...(talk about changes.)

18 posted on 08/30/2020 9:11:05 PM PDT by GOPJ (Democrats and their butt boys in the press are snakes in the grass - mob rule, violence, destruction)
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To: Monty22002
Larry-Davidgif
19 posted on 08/30/2020 9:18:26 PM PDT by timestax
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

CDA is our second home and place of refuge. The subdivisions and the real estate market have exploded. I’m seriously concerned about the politics of those moving in. We have 4 more years until we can retire and live their year round.


20 posted on 08/30/2020 9:29:42 PM PDT by ThisLittleLightofMine
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