Is Sacramento’s downtown rebound a dud? More than two years removed from the pandemic, only half of state workers are back downtown compared to levels in 2019, and empty state office buildings are sitting in limbo.
City Councilmember Phil Pluckebaum is calling on the state to speed up its reuse of empty and underused office buildings, which are double-trouble for a city getting no property or sales tax from them.
“Don’t let those buildings sit empty,” Pluckebaum said. “Sacramento has the most state properties of any city in the state because we’re the capital.”…