>let's throw huge financial incentives at them to get them to move their offices to the suburbs Aren't companies already highly incentivized to not locate in t

>let's throw huge financial incentives at them to get them to move their offices to the suburbs Aren't companies already highly incentivized to not locate in the downtown core, simply by the astronomical cost of real-estate downtown? It seems to make sense that highly specialized industries would locate downtown, because that gives them access to workers from virtually the entire metropolitan area, since all transportation infrastructure points downtown. If a company were to locate in some arbitrary suburb/exurb, sure the people in that area would be knocking down their door to work there, but people cross-town from there probably wouldn't even consider it, since the commute would be even worse (assuming they can't move).