Amazon owns like half of south lake Union: 13m sqft just in Seattle
Comment on Amazon cloud boss says employees unhappy with 5-day office mandate can leave
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 1 week agoI’m not sure which locations they are forcing employees back to, but Amazon itself isn’t likely paying rent, they do own some buildings. That is an investment they use in their listed assets.
What’s happening is that other businesses that do rent building space aren’t getting enough revenue due to decreased traffic (think the corner coffee shop that had a steady stream of regulars every morning but now doesn’t). This causes them to leave, driving up the rent of other renters, and you get a “mortgage backed security like” crisis. Amazon doesn’t give two shits about the businesses that leave, or what they pay in rent - they care that their building value grows. Can’t do that if real estate is vacating in the nearby area.
Which to that I say: good, fuck em
mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah, something stupid like 25 buildings, and they payed some stupid high price per sqft too.
Mango@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Maybe the “risk takers” who invested in corporate real estate, just before corporate real estate became useless, should all fail. Idk why anyone believes the bullshit that they should be jacking up prices to cover their failures. Their whole existence is avoiding risk while calling themselves risk takers and then blaming everyone else when gambling for a living doesn’t work
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Risk means sometimes shit goes south. I’ve seen a lot of shit not going south.
Credit Suisse folded, Archeagos folded. The whole Evergrande thing in Chinaa. But I think that’s it in recent history