Popo said her clients come to the office one to two days a week and tell her they “have no plans to go back” to five days a week. “No one is here on Monday and Friday,” said Sheila Popo, owner of accessory store Necessities, one of the tens of thousands of retailers in Toronto’s downtown hub. After three years of working from home, a new pattern has taken hold: three days in the office, Tuesday to Thursday. It’s a different story on Mondays and Fridays, when hardly anyone is in the office and retailers are mostly empty. Groups of office workers moved through the halls. There were lineups for fast-food chains such as Jimmy the Greek that snaked through the rows of tables. It was one of those days when the country’s financial capital resembled prepandemic office life. " On an afternoon last month in Toronto’s financial district, one of the subterranean food courts was packed. Will Halifax be similar to Toronto and what is the impact on pension plans who have significant investments in office towers ? Trouble in downtown offices - long term or short term ? This will have growth until it's built out with fairly low eventual densities: You wouldn't expect much population growth in the foreground area above, even though it is on the peninsula and in high demand, because the municipality does not allow much new living space to be added. The single-use areas tend to be stagnant as they are built out but don't allow for much densification. One basic breakdown could be greenfield, single-use (suburban), and mixed-use where infill is permitted. There are a few different categories of land and land use. There are some aerial photos here that reminded me of this discussion: Forgetting about families specifically, overall population growth in central areas (downtown, peninsula “urban fringe” neighbourhoods, and old central suburbs) is also dramatically outpacing growth in distant suburbs and rural areas.
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