Downtown LA’s Office Distress Shows the Pain Coming for Cities

Empty offices, vacant storefronts: the buildings of downtown Los Angeles tell a bleak story of the turmoil roiling US commercial real estate. Bloomberg's John Gittelsohn explains how things got so bad.

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[SarahSobieski]

The old codger CEOs need to get with the program. It's more efficient not to return to the office

[youtoobization]

That's what you get for not wanting to spend money on solving homeless problem. In DTLA, there's homeless people on every street now.

[sirloin]

America's offices are about to see a wave of distress that could result in a billion square feet of fresh housing supply

[carlosblanco]

Trends, in a fast moving environment. Where it doesn’t get worse, is ocean front residential ! .

[idid]

It'll be the rich and only homeless living in L.A. soon enough.