If the city is ringed by suburbs, being in the city center gives you access to potential employees from all the suburbs, not just the nearest ones. As well as e

If the city is ringed by suburbs, being in the city center gives you access to potential employees from all the suburbs, not just the nearest ones. As well as employees who would prefer to take transit to work rather than drive (a growing demographic). Plus if you're trying to attract younger employees, they'd generally prefer to work somewhere that's convenient to the same places that are convenient to their friends' offices and close to bustling after-hours businesses. They want to meet friends after work, and would rather travel 15 min within the city rather than 40 min back to the city or in a ring around the city in order to do that.