Nestled in suburban foliage, roomy corporate campuses used to symbolize a lot about American life: car dependency, a desire to get away from crowds and urban blight, a tendency of business leaders to build a monument to their idea of efficiency and shaming the competition while they’re at it.
Over the last dozen years or so, the world has been unkind to those developments. What was a sign of a company’s ambition became a liability, first when the debt crunch hit suburban real estate investments hard.
