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Originally Posted by the urban politician
This is overly simplistic
Commercial properties generate TONS more traffic to local businesses and revenue for cities than residential does.
This is a major financial loss for the city and downtown. It will never be the same. Let’s not deny reality
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This. People are delusional acting like everything will be the same. State st is filled with vacant storefronts.
I was just in Manhattan last month and its worse their than in Chicago. Whole streets just filled with blank storefronts. The city was back alive with pedestrians all over, but the commercial properties leaving New York has left a noticeable difference.
The suburbs right now are more expensive than the city. People got mad when the NY governer was advocating for workers to return to the city, but she said nothing wrong.