So why, in the wake of the pandemic, has its downtown had the worst recovery of any big city in America? And that’s true all across cities around the country, whether it’s Midtown Manhattan, the Loop in Chicago, downtown Atlanta, or the city that we decided to focus on for this story, downtown San Francisco. I mean —emma goldbergAnd Conor and I saw this while we were walking around downtown San Francisco, doing our reporting. More tech companies started coming and sort of setting up shop in downtown San Francisco. When the chain breaks, the tech workers get to sit inside their homes, saving money and time, because they’re not commuting downtown.

Source: The Times February 10, 2023 09:53 UTC