From: Why Corporate America Is Leaving the Suburbs for the City:
We wanted energy, vibrancy and diversity, and to accelerate a change in our culture by moving downtown.
translation:
We want to begin a process of strategically removing more highly paid, legacy employees who can’t commit 12 hours a day to our company and replacing them with younger folks we can take advantage of.
The move to forgo the addition of parking spaces in these new city HQs and encourage the use of mass transit is also interesting, given the current state of mass transit systems in America. Will these corporations be kicking in greenbacks for infrastructure/capacity improvement? Methinks not.
Remember, kids, these are soulless, giant, multinational corporations that place “shareholder value” over everything else. Also, remember that you’ll be a “legacy” worker someday, too.
Hopefully some startup will jump in to buy up all the forthcoming empty suburban campus spaces and turn them into indoor farms.