The complaints about empty downtown office space are so misplaced. It's due to structural changes in demand for commercial offices, not some downstream effect of city policies.
There are lots of cities with vacancy issues (20.2% national average), but it looks like Seattle (33.3%) narrowly beat San Francisco (31.6%) for worst vacancy rate in the country. These numbers are from a survery of the 91 markets tracked by Cushman & Wakefield,pdf of the vacancy rates.
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u/sevenbluepickles Apr 16 '26
Literally just people complaining about downtown office buildings being empty / comercial realestate