Opinion: Toronto’s mayoral election should be an opportunity for a robust debate on how to make sure the city’s central core doesn’t wither because of the COVID hangover.
COVID blew a hole in downtowns across North America, as people stayed home in droves and companies figured out ways to let their employees work remotely. The pandemic is pretty much in the rear window now, but some downtowns still haven’t recovered — and Toronto’s is one of the big laggards.
, based on data from mobile phones. Data from early February showed only 43 per cent of workers were back in the office — a lower rate than in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and other comparable U.S. cities. Companies, of course, would like their employees to come back to those fancy, expensive downtown offices. But naturally there’s a lot of resistance. If you can do your job perfectly well from home, why fight the traffic or squeeze onto the TTC every day? The saw-off for many is two or three days a week at the office, and the rest working remotely from home.
No one wants to see downtowns wither away. In the United States, the flight to the suburbs in the 1950s to ’80s left many downtowns crumbling, abandoned to those too poor to move to safer and richer neighbourhoods, or wealthy enough to insulate themselves from dangers on the street.
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