>> Blackstone will swoop in and grab these for a song, then convert them to rentals. <<
It’d be pretty great if someone did. Too much office space, not enough living space. Of course, you picked Blackstone because Blackstone is evil. You might find that there are a lot of people around here who don’t regard EVERY big-money, big-city billionaire residential real-estate developer to be evil.
I see Blackrock as more evil. Blackstone no.