Work from home has downtowns empty A solution Live in a former office

SAN FRANCISCO — 100 Van Ness is a little different from your average luxury apartment here. Greeted by an automatic revolving door, residents of this downtown residential building lounge or work in communal spaces with coffee machines, meeting rooms and conference spaces. With its glass cubicles, snack station and desks, there’s something vaguely office-like about it. That’s probably because it used to be an office building. No downtown in America lost more in the pandemic workplace revolution than San Francisco’s. And none has more to gain from a new vision for how to recover: Transforming unused office space into housing.…