[modeless]

Those malls don't have paying tenants while they're empty though. Big tech companies aren't going to keep paying leases they don't need forever.

[KerrAvon]

They are if they have contracts specifying that the must do that. Or possibly can negotiate a payout, but I imagine it won’t be cheap.

[ffggffggj]

Musk is doing this now by holding up a refinancing of Twitter’s building by defaulting on the rent. Anyone with a big enough war chest can just stop paying, drag it out in court, and wait the owners out. And tech companies have some of the biggest war chests.

[kibwen]

> And tech companies have some of the biggest war chests.

Most tech companies do, but if reports of Twitter's finances are to be believed, they do not.