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Because of this, many office buildings in cities have remained empty, leaving city planners and officials scrambling to figure out what to do about the empty spaces.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is launching a multi-agency effort to encourage states and cities to convert more empty office buildings into housing units, with billions of federal ...

None of this is breaking news. The writing has been on the wall in the $20 trillion commercial real estate market for years — ever since Zoom calls and working in sweatpants became a way of life ...

It’s been about four years since the Covid-19 pandemic upended society, also killing the once-ubiquitous reality of working in an office for eight hours, five days a week. Many companies have ...

Caught in the middle of the debate are businesses with big office complexes or landlords with still a lot of empty space.

With more people working remotely than ever before, leaders in Minneapolis are trying to figure out what to do with all of the empty office space downtown.