In this article, you'll learn:

• Some suburban office parks are thriving and being repurposed.
• Millennials are drawn to suburbs with city-like amenities.
• Suburban offices offer more space, better schools, and shorter commutes.
• Many suburbs are adapting successfully to modern needs.

As I'm writing this blog post in September of 2016, construction crews are tearing down Oprah's Harpo Studios in Chicago's urban West Loop neighborhood to make room for McDonald's new world headquarters. While this is a victory for the gentrified West Loop, it is also a loss for suburban Oak Brook. This trend is ongoing across the country, and is so prevalent that the Washington Post wrote an article in 2015 comparing suburban office parks to ghost towns.