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> The impact is the same regardless of event.

It isn’t though. Eminent domain increases property values. Pandemics and terrorism decrease it.

> So, given a standard tech business, you buy what you need for positions that cannot be performed remotely and estimated space for those workers that desire to work at that location hopefully in a location close to where these workers live (which is likely not in a typical downtown city location).

This is divorced from the reality I live in. My city developed a business district complete with housing and entertainment near downtown. That area is dead now and the city is understandably concerned. It wasn’t a bad idea before but now it hasn’t worked out. But I can’t blame the businesses who invested. They seem to have made all the right decisions. It wasn’t clearly a mistake pre-pandemic. In fact it was all very progressive and forward-looking.