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>Other office space will be taken out of service for other uses

What uses would those be?

Residential units primarily. Chicago has received $1.2B in proposals to convert office space to residential apartments, for example. I imagine you might be able to convert to hotels as well, but admittedly I have not yet done that research.

Interesting that they received those proposals.

I just read an article saying that the costs would be prohibative to upgrade office highrises into apartments.

Here is one that I just googled:

https://www.bizjournals.com/bizjournals/news/2022/04/13/offi...

I read another article about it being the same thing in Los Angeles - cost prohibative.

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