Chronamut
Active Member
Yeah Hamilton is seriously lacking in the commercial/office tower developments. I wish some companies would locate their head offices or secondary satellite offices here. We need this to compliment all the residential towers in our downtown to fully breath life back into our core. KW has a lot going for them I can't really throw any shade their way.
Don't expect this to happen - since the pandemic there has been empty office space everywhere- people can't PAY people to take it up - we are rapidly entering more and more of a society that lives in their homes - they live on their phones, they order everything to their homes, many times they work from home. Why travel to have a meeting when you can have a zoom call? Why travel to an office 2 hours away when you can work from home? This is going to change the structures of a lot of downtowns where people thought you HAD to go to an office or you wouldn't get any work done, where people thought they couldn't possibly balance working from home. We are starting to become like the romans, and a lot of the people immigrating here are becoming the "servant" class - delivering groceries and meals to peoples doors, driving people around through ubers and cars..
So I guess the question is, in the culture we are now in, what SHOULD be filling these buildings? Or should we just become another suburb where literally all the new buildings we build house just people and kitschy places that hire people at prices nowhere near high enough to allow them to live in the very condos situated above the place they work..
There is something broken about the economic structure of our cities with that in mind.