What do you think the impact of the Mayors return to office push?

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None whatsoever. The law firms and banks are going to do what they want based on how comfortable the partners and others feel coming into the office. Right now, as far as I know, the vast majority do not want to come in, especially after so many attorneys and bankers got Covid in December.

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The biggest pressure on firms returning to office is their clients pushing them to do so. Any client with a significant interest in commercial real estate (including a number of PE firms) have been nudging firms to go back to their office.

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I live outside of Manhattan and starting to see people shooting up in the streets.

Good luck Mayor Adams! What a huge improvement over Mayor Putz!

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