Even if you go to a hybrid schedule, the necessity for large office footprints seems to be, largely, a thing of the past.
My only argument was that looking 20-30 years into the future, I think that Chicago will still be relatively "fine" from a civic standpoint whereas I feel like St Louis, in 20-30 years will be a literal ghosttown unless there's an enormous re-imagining of the city both from a built space as well as a civic entity.
I mean...or maybe Chicago will continue on it's SF-ification with increased income and wealth gap, which isn't great. But there's so much of Chicago to be had so affordably, I can't imagine it ever losing it's sense of place as a working class, blue collar, town.
But now I'm rambling...
And unlike St. Louis, Chicago's housing sector may save the day for local businesses depending upon a steady flow of patrons. But it's not a good time to be trying to lease business space in Chicago rigth now.
One of my Chicago clients is moving offices for about the 3rd time in approximately 5-7 years. It's really a buyers' market right now.
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