This is a great thought piece on the important role that Transbay will play in helping San Francisco's economy into its next normal. It's helpful to think of the SF Bay Area as a polycentric economy. We have the three major cities of #sanfrancisco , #oakland and #sanjose , but also a series of secondary cities that play a central role in our tech and sciences based economy: #sunnyvale , #mountainview, #paloalto, #redwoodcity , #sancarlos , #Emeryville, #berkeley, #sanleandro (I am so on your side, City of San Leandro), #SanBruno, etc. In a region that hasn't built enough housing in the last 40-years and has its economy spread over 2+ hours of commute distances, hybridization and virtualization are actually competitive advantages. It's preferable to have an employee living in Albany and hybrid ‘x’ days a week to an employer in SF than it is to have that employee (and that employer) relocate to Austin, Charlotte, Nashville etc because of affordability and quality of life. What's critical in this next phase of the Bay Area's future is that we continue to underpin our jobs and housing growth to high-quality and convenient (emphasis) transit. Everyone loves a fancy workplace but what really moves the needle for workers is choice + flexibility + quality in the live-work nexus. This may also go a good way to moving that ‘x’ factor to the benefit of our (hopefully mixed-use in the future) employment districts. #hybridwork #sanfrancisco #sfbayarea #futuremobility #mobility #transbay #futureofwork #office #workplace #transbay
Why Transit Infrastructure is the Ace Up the Sleeve of Downtown Office The latest from MetroSight, by Egon Terplan and Issi Romem, on behalf of VTS. https://lnkd.in/gNAQXkQR
