The double whammy hitting Chicago’s downtown – The Real Deal

June 16, 2020

“A 20 to 25 percent drop in (users of) the downtown office market has titanic implications for the character of our city,” Joe Schwieterman, director of DePaul University’s Chaddick Institute for Metropolitan Development, told Crain’s. “If you diminish the size of the corporate workforce, that ripples through just about everything.”

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debtsor

5 years ago

My office is moving out of downtown when the lease expires in 2021. Looking at space in suburbs. Bye-Bye Lori!

PlanningAnExit

5 years ago

Master of the obvious… Why don’t you share this common sense based view of reality with LL and JB? Nah, you’re right, they simply wouldn’t understand it…

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