And, in the northern suburbs, office parks surrounded by SUVs are home to established technology companies like IBM, Cisco, HP, and Dell — as well as startups, often founded by their former employees.
It was the early 80s and the sprawling suburbs and office parks around Palo Alto, California, were pregnant with a sense of possibility.
One criticism of MetroTech has been that while thousands of people work there during the day, most leave for homes elsewhere in the city or in the suburbs after office hours, leaving the streets empty and lifeless.
Many VC firms have also relocated from the suburbs, opening offices in Boston or Cambridge.
I sent him a copy of the first album I ever made and not only did he play the record on air, he sent me back a postcard with a personal remembrance of Chicago, of visiting a matron aunt as a child in Evanston, the suburb where my post office box was kept.
A discreet complex in a Dallas suburb houses the office of Sam Pack, owner of four Ford dealerships.
An early front-runner who moved from a nearby suburb to seek office, Mr. Duggan was found ineligible to appear on the ballot after courts said he had submitted election petitions two weeks before he had met the residency requirement.
Janet Reno, a Democratic candidate for governor and former United States attorney general, was involved in a minor traffic accident when another driver collided with her beloved red pickup truck near her home in a Miami suburb, her campaign office said.
Paul works from home, in an unnamed, mostly unseen suburb, in an office that's the size of the New York Public Library; if you stick your head out the window a couple of minutes after the first episode starts, you'll be able to hear all the psychotherapists in the country laughing, and then crying.
Depending on how hellacious the traffic, he spends fifteen to twenty hours a week commuting from the eucalyptus-lined suburb to his office in Marin County.
