Prime Office Locations in the Netherlands

Willingness to Pay for Multifunctional Megaprojects: A Stated Preference Analysis Among Firms in the Amsterdam Zuidas Area

“…For companies not located at the Amsterdam Zuidas, it is more difficult to find explanatory factors for the importance they attach to accessibility by public transport compared with accessibility by car. Korteweg and Lie (1992) also found that parking facilities are considered as an important location factor by 85% to 95% of the companies. This is confirmed by our finding that more than 77% of the firms expect a positive influence of the availability of parking places on long-term profits.…”

“…Many of these characteristics can be found in the traditional literature on location choice (e.g. Bruinsma & , 1995;Funck, 1995;Korteweg & Lie, 1992;Pellenbarg, 1985). Figure 1 shows the results per category, in which the ordering within each category reflects the importance as expressed by companies at the Amsterdam Zuidas.…”

“…In both the studies, accessibility via road is considered more important than accessibility by public transport. In a study of Korteweg and Lie (1992) concerning office firms in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague and Utrecht, 83% to 94% of the firms indicated accessibility by car to be an important location factor, whereas 69% to 82% indicated accessibility by public transport to be an important location factor. In contrast, in our study, accessibility by public transport is considered more important than that by car.…”

“…During the interviews, neither of the two groups indicated specific insecurity or excellent safety at locations, which could have been an explanatory factor. In a study of Korteweg and Lie (1992), 68% to 79% of the companies in the data set consider a prestigious environment as an important location factor. During the interviews, we noticed similar considerations: companies indicated that they highly appreciate it to be located in an office building that overlooks other buildings in the area, for example.…”

Accommodation as a location factor for office organisations: Implications for location theory

“…Nonetheless, housing scores low as a location factor, even in the work of Coffey et al on Montreal, which does concentrate on the urban level. In contrast, several studies conducted by Korteweg (for an overview, see Korteweg and Lie, 1992) in the four big cities of the Netherlands (namely Amsterdam, Rotterdam, The Hague, and Utrecht) reveal that various building characteristics are identified as location factors by the majority of the office organizations surveyed. Those characteristics include flexible floor space, size of the building, its standing, facilities for computers, etc.…”