PHOENIX—For office today, if you are in a lot of suburban areas, there is a predominance of vacant or largely vacant dinosaurs that no longer serve a use. That was according to panelist Ralph Zucker, president of Somerset Development at the recent RealShare National Healthcare Real Estate 2015 conference.
Zucker pointed out that there are so many offices where people come in in the morning, check their life at the door and pick it up when they go home. As for what the market's future should hold? Zucker referenced a David Rockwell quote where the architect and designer asked the "what if" question when it came to creativity.
"What if the office became a place to live, create, play, research, entertain, connect, dine, incubate, film, broadcast, mentor, muse, learn, party, invent?" Zucker said. "Just add 'medical' before the word 'office.'"
Zucker noted that what it really comes down to is "time." He said that "If you take these places that exist in suburbia and turn them into a place where you can give back the gift of time, where customers can be free to roam about the cabin, and instead of sitting in a waiting room, they could get up and go to the library or to the coffee shop where they can be paged when their appointment is ready, it would be inspiring."
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