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How clueless can you be? It is events like this which will permanently drive businesses and workers out of downtown. And when those buildings are empty, the owners won't be paying very much in real estate taxes, which will decimate city coffers. And No, the bulk of those office buildings are not suitable for redevelopment into residential, even if there WAS a rental market for people who want to live where they will have urine thrown on them when they walk outside.

Army Navy Club is thinking of leaving because of what you described It is basically a hotel, so it could be converted to residential use.
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Converted to residential use BY WHOM?  Who would rent an apartment next to the pee-throwing tent city?  And---if the answer is that it could be converted to resi use BY the residents of the pee-throwing tent city, then the answer is that the government would be paying for it.  That means that the property becomes a government expenditure, not a use that generates tax revenue for the government.  Again, if the city drives away enough tax paying downtown owners and workers, then there is no one left to generate the tax revenue that pays for government  services.  Since no one on the City Council ---and certainly no on in the progressive bloc---has ever actually worked in private sector business---there is an inability to appreciate the economic effects of the chaos that  is occurring downtown.[/quote]

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