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I used this term on another forum which raised the question of the definition and surmised this is the best place to get consensus. My idea is a suburb with many office buildings, many hosting corporations, no dominance by a single one, little or no industry, and middle-to-high income housing. Great golf course desirable but not essential. Anyone care to add their input?
Last edited by pvande55; 05-31-2014 at 11:13 AM..
Reason: Add golf course note
There's certainly a lot of suburbs meeting that definition; many towns along the Main Line and US 202 in eastern Pennsylvania, quite a few Morris and Passaic County suburbs in NJ (though some of them have lost most or all of their major employers since 2008), towns along the I-270 corridor in Maryland, and much of Silicon Valley.
There's certainly a lot of suburbs meeting that definition; many towns along the Main Line and US 202 in eastern Pennsylvania, quite a few Morris and Passaic County suburbs in NJ (though some of them have lost most or all of their major employers since 2008), towns along the I-270 corridor in Maryland, and much of Silicon Valley.
Paramus is Bergen county; I know there's a lot of retail but I don't know about corporate offices. I was thinking more Florham Park, East Hanover, Morris Township. I'm sure there's other areas.
I used this term on another forum which raised the question of the definition and surmised this is the best place to get consensus. My idea is a suburb with many office buildings, many hosting corporations, no dominance by a single one, little or no industry, and middle-to-high income housing. Great golf course desirable but not essential. Anyone care to add their input?
I would define corporate suburb as they generally are a nodal business employment center (centrally located) that develops after the dominant historic downtown and tend to have a high percent of large corporate regional or district headquarters / operations centers. A good example in NE Ohio is Independence, OH.
Some common cues: close to major highway interchanges (I480 I 77) dominant main arterial (Rockside Road-seven lane) blend of campus type corporate buildings (auto-centric; lots of free parking, mostly mid rise with an occasional high rise) and dominated by lots of national franchise retail throughout the corridor and the requisite hospitality presence (higher than average suburb).
No clue. Never heard of one, so I'm pretty sure they don't exist.
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