Downtown San Jose is seeing only half the human activity of pre-pandemic times, and San Francisco’s core is not even a third of the way back to its former level, according to new data.
Jenny Dang stood inside the entrance to her restaurant, China Wok, in downtown San Jose on a recent weekday and waved toward her customer-free dining room.
The downtowns of the Bay Area’s three most-populous cities lag far behind other major U.S. urban centers in activity, with San Diego’s nearing 90% of pre-pandemic levels, Tampa’s at 85% and New York City’s at 78%, the data indicate. Local business leaders said the shift to remote work has hit the Bay Area especially hard because so many jobs in the region can be done from home.
San Jose’s urban center, said Derrick Seaver, CEO of the city’s chamber of commerce, lacks the residential density of many U.S. downtowns, making it more dependent on office workers, business travelers, and visitors for conventions and other large events, all of whom are scarcer today.
Steve Snider, executive director of the nonprofit booster group Lake Merritt-Uptown and Downtown Oakland Community Benefit Districts, cited an apparent “uptick” in downtown activity, but added, “We’re still struggling with this hybrid work environment.”
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