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Building A City Inside A Suburban Office Park

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Congress on New Urbanism Listserv
19 September 2004 - 11:00am

Suburban office park owners are beginning to model the office park campus on mixed use urban neighborhoods.

"As the competition for these high-skilled workers heats up, suburban office parks and corporate campuses are rethinking their sterile designs and adding shops, apartments and restaurants to create a slice of city life in suburbia... EDS' campus, for example, is beautiful but did not scream "cool" until 1999, when the Legacy Town Center opened in the office park about 20 miles from downtown Dallas.

Today, pedestrian-friendly streets, upscale boutiques, art galleries, restaurants, theaters, coffee shops, a town square, hotel and 640 apartments are within a five-minute walk from EDS' front gate."

Full Story: Suburban office parks get urban injection
Source: USA Today, September 14, 2004
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