Abstract
lntrametropolitan office location has only received limited attention in U.S. urban studies. This paper examines the particular case of Greater Seattle with reference to the relationship between public policies for office development and empirical evidence of office location change within the metropolitan area. The City of Seattle is anxious to promote the CBD as the focus of the office economy, while adjacent King County wants to promote suburban centers in which office development will be prominent. Data on the intrametropolitan movement of offices, the reasons for location choice, and the evidence of in-migration from outside the Puget Sound region have been collected. These data suggest that office location behavior in Seattle does not mirror events in other US. cities; its office economy remains highly centralized, intraurban migration has been limited, and suburban centers must rely heavily on in-situ growth of indigenous office enterprises.
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