99% invisible just did an episode on skyscraper conversion. Its farily complicated.
Comment on The End of Airbnb in New York
randon31415@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Downtown service businesses looking at empty offices due to WFH. “Well, at least people still come downtown for its hotels. Tourists still have lots of money to prop us up!” AirBnB gets banned, hotels start jacking up prices. “Well, #$%#.”
I think offices into hotels would solve both problems, right?
uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
FaeDrifter@midwest.social 1 year ago
Hotels require a vastly more dense plumbing structure, I don’t think it’s easy or cheap to retrofit onto an office building.
Gyrolemmy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Hotels with dorm like shower systens maybe could work. I think something like a hostel.
That being said you cant charge much when you are forcing customers to share bathrooms.
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 year ago
Well, shared bathroom means zero stars so yeah, you basically can’t call it a hotel anymore.
ilikekeyboards@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People would still go. People go new york for new york not for a resort