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Originally Posted by CoryB
Cheaper rent, cheaper parking (which the company may be subsidizing) and the availability of space for expansion. Does seem like real strong business drivers. While they tack on the whole "downtown is unsafe" arguement if it was more expensive to operate their business at Polo Park than downtown the office would be downtown, plain and simple.
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I do understand thier were other variables and it comes down to a sound buisness decision in the end, but they did cite this as one of the factors. Why would they even bring it up if it wasn't 1 of the variables in making a sound buisness chioce, Employee safety would seem like an important issue? Just quoting from thier press release, not my personal opinion?
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But one of the main reasons was employees' and management's concern about downtown safety at night.
Valpy said some of the firm's 350 employees work until 10 p.m., and they were worried about having to catch a bus or walk to their cars downtown that late at night.
"If we were a nine-to-five operation, we probably would have jumped all over it (a downtown site)," he said. "But at the end of the day, it came down to knowing our employees would be fine. We just felt better about Polo Park."