It's on a different scale, but in the UK the BBC decided to move a lot of their operations out of London. This was party done as a political move to spread the jobs out from the south east of the UK to the north of England, which is in a similar postindustrial situation to the Midwest (I presume).

They needed up moving most of the tech and R&D departments, children's programming, and see news, sport, and radio shows.