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Originally Posted by Crawford
Silicon Valley is pretty solidly car dependent. Perhaps younger people in tech prefer a non car based life, but it hasn't filtered down to most corporate HQ decision making.
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Amazon is a huge exception to this. They've been very open about why they're in Downtown Seattle, and it's heavily tied to being urban and fostering the urban lifestyles many employees want. Apparently 20% walk to work. Their RE head spoke at an event I went to and said that basically equaled the need for 20 highrise apartment buildings.
Oh hell, here's an article with some of that.
http://www.bizjournals.com/seattle/b...ake-union.html