One Young (née Mayfair Hotel) | 5 fl | Complete

[danbrotherston]

While the pandemic is entirely unprecedented and predicting it's outcomes isn't easy, my best guess is that between an increase in work from home, and a resurgence in retail activity by people who have spent >1 year abstaining, plus the huge increase in people living downtown from the dozen or so condo buildings going up, that going forward, demand for retail space downtown will be growing much faster than demand for office space. There are clearly still people with money willing to bet on office demand (and I'm sure it won't be zero), but if I were betting, it would be on retail.

I do agree, but there is a substantial amount of high-quality street-level retail space available already, and more on the way -- so I'm not worried about a bank signing up for some of that.

Fair enough, I don't object to the bank either (although it's kind of the most boring possible option IMO). I was thinking more of the apparently no more rooftop restaurant.