Not only all that, but the COVID-19 shutdown has shown many companies that their employees can work from home, no problem. So there really is no need for dense downtown districts anymore. Might take some years, but I think downtowns dense with skyscrapers are going the way of the dinosaurs.
So there really is no need for dense downtown districts anymore. Might take some years, but I think downtowns dense with skyscrapers are going the way of the dinosaurs.
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Wasn’t all that long ago that URBAN RENEWAL drove all the ‘seedy business’ and Flop Houses out of downtown for ‘redevelopment’.
Up went fancy office buildings, high dollar Condos etc etc.
And, in some cases, low income housing was just ‘condemned’ so fancy new buildings could go up.
Also the birth of the MASS homelessnes, the bums that were perfectly happy in the ‘flop house’ suddenly found themselves on the street, living in doorways and on grates.
Areas were sorta kept clean till the LIBS overran everything and declared homelessness was a ‘virtue’ (Just NOT on ‘my’ street) and they should be allowed to panhandle unmolested also, the closing of ‘mental institutions and lax sentencing didn’t/doesn’t help.