Oso planning to go pro
I'll bite.Sultan, 🐷🐷, Rico. Pakuni, Hards, et al are all bigger experts on, well, everything. Especially when compared to industry experts, analysts, and other smart people.
https://twitter.com/nocontexthumans/status/1672632840004026371?s=46&t=el-XnIMOEDcxAw3lmg3L5A
Milwaukee is t growing to 1 million. That’s just nonsense. Regardless I was talking about Marquette’s enrollment.
LOL...exactly. Being smaller isn't worse. It's a strategic decision.
Again with the scoop tactic of over ANALyzing precise wording.He’s saying the most important metric for a city is its population.If it's growing, it's healthyIf it is not growing, it's not healthy.The city of Milwaukee stopped growing in 1960, Chicago in 1950.Now, thanks to the shut down/restart, this trend is accelerating. And now the entire metro area of Milwaukee and Chicago are have stopped growing.Below is just made up words to say the opposite, because that is what happens here.No serious person in a city thinks this, and would ever think this.
++ JPMorgan management requires workers to show up at the office or face harsh consequences. To the small percentage of employees who have grumbled, management's response has basically been: "OK, there's the door."
He wasn’t talking about Milwaukee. He was talking about Marquette.
Still appliesShow me a major university that is shrinking enrollment and closing schools (because that is what happens when you shrink) that is becoming more desirable?And why is this happening? 40% of MU incoming classes are from metro Chicago, 30% from metro Milwaukee. The pool is shrinking.The area’s population growth and the school’s size are the same thing.
JP Morgan (along with Goldman Sachs) have been the two biggest outliers in forcing everyone back into the office.So, how's or been going?Like clockwork every year the demand everyone return, and every year this then happens.We await the completion of the 2023 cycle.JPMorgan loosens return to office rules for some workers after pushback: reporthttps://nypost.com/2022/04/27/jpmorgan-loosens-return-to-office-rules-after-pushback/JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon is among those pushing workers to get back to the office – though he acknowledged in his annual shareholder letter last month that “working from home will become more permanent in American business.”In the letter, Dimon predicted that some 50% of the bank’s overall workforce would likely need to work on site full-time in the future, while 40% would adopt a hybrid model and about 10% would be allowed work remotely full time.During a Wall Street Journal event the previous summer, Dimon said the bank was “getting blowback about coming back internally, but that’s life.” Business Insider reported last week that JPMorgan has a “general expectation” that hybrid workers across the bank will work at least three days per week in the office, according to leaked internal documents.Demanding return-to-office plans are a source of friction on Wall Street – especially among junior employees.As The Post reported earlier last month, some junior staffers at Goldman Sachs have grumbled that they are being “bullied” into working on site five days a week.“In GS, the top management says it’s employees’ choice but internally they track which team has most in office attendance,” one Goldman employee wrote on the corporate message board Blind.
June 2022MacArthur Foundation/UIC data report analyzing Chicago Metro population trendshttps://uofi.app.box.com/s/rgf5h8oc8bnjq9ua2463oolvdj23qyun/file/970584591836Excerpts from its conclusionIf individuals vote with their feet, Chicago is losing. As we noted at the beginning of this report, Chicago is the slowest growing major city in the U.S. Thousands of Chicago residents have left the city to seek better opportunities elsewhere. In this report, we’ve documented these trends, starting from the period of massive population growth in 1920 to its dramatic decline a century later.
There is a huge difference between one company back in the office and whole downtowns coming back. Jamie Dimon (bless his heart, I agree with him), wants everyone back.The rest of the world will fight this, especially out west where housing constrained people fled California for more habitable, house friendly and tax-friendly (read, cost of living friendly) areas. The fact that California lost a Congressional seat after almost doubling its delegation for the past 50 years, should be a warning. California's population loss isn't in the Central Valley, it's in LA and San Francisco MSAs.And it's going to continue as long as California leads the nation in goofiness. As beautiful as that state is, the coastal part of the state is almost uninhabitable unless you are a 1 percenter, like Brother Rico, who lives in his gated community!
And now there's a small handful of nations with a GDP larger than California's.
Business Insider published the most depressing piece I have read on this subject.June 22, 2023Middle America's 'doom loop'Work from home is crushing Midwestern downtownshttps://www.businessinsider.com/midwest-america-cities-downtown-crisis-office-apocalypse-urban-doom-loop-2023-6But Midwestern cities are also facing a crisis of their own — struggling to attract workers, residents, and visitors to their downtowns. And while many coastal metros experienced a "golden age" in the decade before the pandemic, cities in America's heartland have been struggling since well before COVID came around.In order to pull out of their tailspin, economists and urban planners say many Midwestern cities need to get serious about improving amenities and boosting quality of life in their downtowns. Instead of being places where people are forced to go to work, leaders need to make their center cities into a destination that people actually want to visit."What I really think it comes down to in these places is that there's nothing special about any of the downtowns in any of these cities that would be attractive to new residents," Michael Hicks, a professor of economics and business research at Ball State University in Indiana, told Insider. "The cities just don't have the fundamental amenities that would attract people." Hollowed outA good way to gauge just how much trouble Midwestern cities are in is to take a look at how many people their downtowns are actually attracting. Standing in the middle of the city square and counting people can be a bit tough though, so researchers at the University of Toronto have been analyzing anonymized cellphone data for the past few years to track the number of people physically present in central business districts each day. The granular, individual-level data provides a fuller picture of downtown vitality — both before and after the pandemic — than other measures such as office vacancy rates and mass-transit ridership. The conclusion the study draws for the heartland is bleak. Five of the bottom 10 cities in the tracker's most recent data, which measured the period from December 2022 to March 2023, were in the Midwest: St. Louis, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, Cleveland, and Kansas City, Missouri. Nine of the 13 Midwestern cities tracked in the study were in the bottom half of the rankings.Other indicators of central business district health — from office workers to vacant real-estate space — are similarly stark for many of these cities. Jacob Frey, the mayor of Minneapolis, recently said he expects his city's downtown workforce will max out at about 75% of its pre-pandemic numbers, and a recent study showed that 21.2 million square feet of office space in the city is sitting vacant. In April, Salesforce announced it would give up one-quarter of its office space in the Indianapolis Salesforce Tower, Indiana's tallest building. The Midwest as a whole has also struggled to attract new residents and hold onto its existing residents in recent years. Between April 2020 and July 2022, the region saw a net decline of more than 400,000 residents. And things could get even worse for downtowns if they fall into the so-called "urban doom loop." Commercial property taxes make up a large chunk of many city budgets, so as office vacancies rise, the decreased revenue could force leaders to curtail municipal services or make cuts to key programs. Declining services and quality of life in turn pushes residents out, leading to a self-reinforcing exodus. Without serious changes, these midsize cities in the middle of the country could be quietly sliding into oblivion.
Good thing Marquette understands this and is addressing it.
The good news is that Milwaukee is ranked 16th best out of 63 cities on the recovery Downtown - and basically tied for 3rd among Midwest cities.http://downtownrecovery.com/dashboards/recovery_ranking.htmlThere are several new residential highrises going up in Downtown, the Third Ward and the immediate surrounding area. It certainly seems to be bucking the trend.
better start allowing school choice(s)...not tellin people what to do with their minds; their minds, their choice eyn'a?
School choice is a joke and horrible for society