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Internet startup to move downtown from the suburbs
By adamg on Mon, 10/20/2014 - 6:49pm
Acquia, which currently provides content-management applications and services plans to move from Burlington to 53 State St. next year, BostInno reports, adding the company will be doubling its space with the move.
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Not surprising
A lot of my friends and my husband work in this industry. I have heard tales of companies that wanted to move out of the city, but were faced with losing a substantial number of employees because younger people (and some of us old phahts) don't like to drive.
Moving back into the city is actually one of those trend thingys ... just not usually such large companies.
Give it time
When a company is yesterday's news and no longer the new, hot, start up, its once workaholic young employees might think about getting a personal life and then having a family. Then, places like Medford, Arlington, Waltham, and Burlington start looking better for living and working.
The 1950s calling for you,
The 1950s calling for you, Markk.
+1
And apparently Markk doesn't realize that some people might want to live in Medford or Arlington or Waltham and not sit in traffic on 128 every day.
Marky Mark...
...this isn't the Funky Bunch's Boston.
- The Original SoBo Yuppie
...and working?
Living, I get it. But working? Who really cares? Except at lunch time, that is, when you've got the same office park swill year after year, vs. your choice of dozens of restaurants within a few blocks. My company is downtown and most of our employees live outside the city but within a reasonable commute (Medford, Arlington, more North Shore than South Shore, a few metrowest). We've always been downtown and we're not moving anytime soon. Best of both worlds perhaps?
Downtown = Easier to pick your place to live
Locating downtown gives you a lot of choices. In my office, moves are always made to places that accommodate transit commutes. That allows people to live pretty much anywhere they choose, rather than be locked into a car commute due to work location.
Locating in Arlington or Medford or Quincy would be a nightmare, given the structure of the transit systems. Be great for me and a few others, but would require rides into and out of the city to accomplish for most - or driving in horrible traffic.
My company doesn't have a lot of youngsters, though. I'm pushing 50 and I am one of the younger ones. So much for this grand "theory" of "having family" = "car dependence". My husband's workplace does have recent grads, and their location is a huge draw. Some of his coworkers are living further out, and they get in via commuter rail or varying combinations of bike/bus/T just fine.
school-age parent here
I prefer living as close to downtown as I can afford - and I prefer biking/T/walking over driving. I would really like to bike places with my kid, but our infrastructure isn't up to snuff yet.