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Originally Posted by originalmuffins
My sentiments exactly. Going back to a pre-covid world is bad news for Ottawa's development and actual longterm viability of our downtown core actually having life.
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Yeah - and no matter what people feel - we're not going all the way back to pre-covid normal. If government and private business want to retain employees - they have to continue offering WFH to compete with those who do. It's really not in their interest to pay for office space they don't use either.
I'd say this is akin to the long term change brought about by suburbanization and the automobile - maybe not on the same scale - but this isn't that new.
Hopefully there's enough redevelopment of downtown office space to housing to make difference. Of course we won't see apartments crammed at the density of cubicles - so it couldn't make up 100% of the difference. But since people who live downtown will spend more of their money there than a commuter would - perhaps it could make up a lot of the difference.