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Originally Posted by LouisVanDerWright
You also forgot about Miller Coors. The area is quite a mecca for the industry as Chicago has always been. This is what I am talking about when I say companies moving into downtown is not a zero sum game. The suburbs loss is not a 1 for 1 gain for the city. Concentrating all of these businesses in a small area makes our agglomeration of food companies exponentially more attractive to the next company looking at a relocation or to the next international customer or vendor of a bunch of these companies who is looking for a convenient location for their NA HQ.
If you take these same companies and scatter them all over Chicagoland you don't get anywhere near the gravitational pull this cluster has being all crammed into essentially 1 square mile of downtown.
Therefore... Death to the suburbs!
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The suburbs don't need to die, but major corporate campuses in the suburbs should. If the region's population continues to contract for the foreseeable future, it's possible that concentrating employment and people may counteract some of those negative consequences.