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- <text id=89TT1769>
- <title>
- July 10, 1989: Business Notes:Corporate Moves
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- July 10, 1989 You Bet Your Life:Pete Rose
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 47
- Business Notes
- CORPORATE MOVES
- Bright Lights, Big Exodus
- </hdr><body>
- <p> Many companies cherish their place in the urban skyline,
- but quite a few others want to escape the high rents and
- downtown hassles. Sears said last week it will move the
- company's merchandising division, which has 6,000 employees,
- from the landmark Sears Tower in Chicago's Loop to a planned
- office complex in suburban Hoffman Estates (pop. 44,761). Dozens
- of cities and states had been trying to lure Sears, but Illinois
- and Hoffman Estates prevailed with a package of incentives worth
- $241 million.
- </p>
- <p> Only a day later, Manhattan-based Merrill Lynch said it
- plans to move 2,500 of its 13,000 workers across the Hudson
- River to Jersey City. Angry over the rejection, New York City
- Mayor Ed Koch revoked Merrill Lynch's position as senior
- underwriter for the city's municipal bonds.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
- </text>
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