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- Nov. 06, 1989: Not Mad About Manhattan
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Nov. 06, 1989 The Big Break
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- BUSINESS, Page 69
- Not Mad About Manhattan
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- <p>Exxon flees New York prices
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- <p> At last count, New York City served as the headquarters for
- 48 of the FORTUNE 500 corporations, more than any other city in
- the U.S. But 20 years ago, 138 of the largest industrial
- corporations called the Big Apple home. Last week Exxon said it
- will join the exodus by moving its corporate base to Irving,
- Texas, a suburb of Dallas. The move will involve only 300
- employees, since the company has already dispersed its corporate
- staff to other sites around the U.S. Even so, and even though
- RJR Nabisco will move its headquarters from Atlanta to New York
- City next year, the departure of the former Standard Oil of New
- Jersey was a blow to Big Apple boosters.
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- <p> Exxon will move into a campus-like complex to be
- constructed in the Las Colinas development park. The company
- probably had the same money-saving concerns that inspired its
- former Manhattan neighbor J.C. Penney to move last year to
- Plano, another Dallas suburb. The past decade's oil bust has
- made Texas a good place to find cheap office space. J.C. Penney
- expects to save some $60 million annually by relocating. In Las
- Colinas Exxon should be able to rent office space for around $15
- per sq. ft., in contrast to nearly $50 in midtown Manhattan.
- Employees will enjoy a markedly lower cost of living. The median
- price for a home in the Dallas area is about $94,700; it is
- $185,500 in the New York metropolitan region. Gotham is not
- suffering alone. A chill wind rustled through Chicago this year
- when Sears decided to sell its landmark 110-story tower and move
- to new headquarters in suburban Hoffman Estates, Ill. Will the
- last company to leave the big city please turn out the lights?
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