Reimagining Downtowns Post-COVID

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https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7141-6626

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2024-02

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Greene, Richard, Katherine Barrett, and John Rennie Short. “Reimagining Downtowns Post-COVID.” GOVERNMENT FINANCE REVIEW, February 26, 2026. https://www.gfoa.org/materials/gfr0224-reimagining-downtown.

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Abstract

With the arrival of COVID, downtowns in many major cities shut down, almost to the breaking point, as staffers began working from their homes. Even though many have returned, a number of experts believe that the new normal for office buildings will be hybrid schedule, with workers coming in two or three days a week. That means that the need for office space will decline and—perhaps most important for the health of downtowns—the daytime populations will remain lower than in the past.