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Originally Posted by chillrob
They're starting to be pretty common in businesses in Portland and Seattle. It feels a bit funny when you're using a urinal and a woman comes in, but it doesn't seem to bother them.
I've seen communal bathrooms before in small offices but never one that had a urinal
friend in Seattle owns an office building, each office has its own bathroom, it's mostly small offices with single occupancy bathrooms but two floors are just one unit and have a large female bathroom on one side and a large male bathroom on the other
one of those tenants exclaimed that they wanted to convert them both to coed because some of the people wouldn't need to walk as far - he said sure, he doesn't care who uses what bathroom
tenant said great and then asked which weekend he would start construction so they would make sure nobody came in to work on those weekends, my friend was confused and asked what construction would be required and they wanted him to take out all the urinals and upgrade all the stalls to 100% enclosed
he refused, said it would cost too much to do that and would make it harder to rent because the next tenant would probably want urinals in the men's room
offered a compromise where they signed a 10 year extension (they were on year 2-3 of a 5 year lease) and paid a deposit equal to 75% of the cost of the renovations that they would only get back at the end of the 10 year extension so he had his bases covered if they left early
they refused and just covered up the urinals instead, the idea of a coed bathroom with urinals in use was just a non starter