The joke used to he that the company's cars were driven exclusively by peoples fathers. Now they are driven exclusively by their grandfathers. The 5,000-acre Spectrum, which sits in the heart of Orange County, at the intersection of two freeways, is one of America's most successful business parks, outdoing such rivals as North Carolina's Research Triangle in everything from office space to employees. The Spectrum boasts 20m square feet of commercial space, more than the whole of downtown San Francisco. Creating successful business clusters is the philosopher's stone of developers.
Locals thank the weather.
But the same weather has hardly turned South Central Los Angeles into a business Mecca. They are also full of praise for the University of California's Irvine campus. But UCI is hardly Stanford or Berkeley. Transport has a lot to do with it. The company could have made a killing when LA began to sprawl southwards into its land.