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Office Urban Migration is Happening in DTSD

SAN DIEGO—Companies are moving from the suburbs to offices in Downtown San Diego, EMMES's Christine Takara tells GlobeSt.com. She speaks with us EXCLUSIVELY about this trend and interest in this submarket from innovation-based companies.

By Carrie Rossenfeld | carrierossenfeld | Updated on May 23, 2016

Christine Takara Takara: “These are not just tiny, blossoming companies—they’ve been around for a few years and have outgrown their space.”

SAN DIEGO—Companies are moving from the suburbs to offices in Downtown San Diego, EMMES Realty Services of California‘s customer-service manager Christine Takara tells GlobeSt.com. What’s more, urban office-building amenities like modern gyms, restaurants and other retail stores can contribute not only to that building’s tenants, but to residents, employees and visitors to the Downtown market. As a representative of the second-largest commercial-office landlord in Downtown San Diego, next to the Irvine Co., Takara tells us exclusively what her firm has seen in this “urban migration” and why innovation-based companies are drawn to Downtown and the firm’s 707 Broadway building.

GlobeSt.com: Are companies other than small start-ups moving from the suburbs to Downtown San Diego?

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