Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses Choose Walkable Areas

Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by Apocryphon on Monday December 21, 2015 @06:31PM (#10774402)

Tell it to San Jose:

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2015/08/20/boston-pr... http://www.macrumors.com/2015/12/14/apple-buys-old-semicondu...

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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by Bud on Monday December 21, 2015 @06:49PM (#10774499)

I lived in that neighborhood in San Jose for 14 years. It's at least plausibly walkable if they put more businesses around there, and I think that will naturally happen if 10,000 tech workers magically show up.

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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by city41 on Monday December 21, 2015 @06:56PM (#10774526)

It boggles my mind how many buildings Apple has. Altogether their office space in Silicon Valley probably approaches the size of Microsoft's Redmond campus, yet they make a mere fraction as many products as MS.

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Re:Suburban Office Parks Increasingly Obsolete; Businesses C... by Johnny555 on Monday December 21, 2015 @07:04PM (#10774573)

Apple has around 3.3M square feet of office space now, and their new spaceship HQ will contain around 2.8M sq ft:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Campus

Microsoft's Redmond campus occupies around 11M sq feet, with another 1.6M sq feet in Bellvue.

> http://thinkspace.com/office-space-bellevue-how-much-office-...

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