While the developers say they are bullish on their ability to lease up the buildings, slow job growth, economic uncertainty and companies opting against moving as a cost-savings measure are putting pressures on New York landlords and developers looking to lure tenants.
The Bring Jobs Home Act would provide a 20% tax break for the costs of moving jobs back to the United States and would rescind business expense deductions available to companies that are associated with the cost of moving operations overseas.
"The cost of moving goods is always significant, " says Open Harbor investor Thomas Bredt of Menlo Ventures.
Indeed, the cost of moving people will probably go up more quickly than improvements in people moving technologies.
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It would bar companies from taking a tax deduction for the cost of moving operations to an overseas start-up.
Moving elsewhere would probably cost way too much and be way too painful.
Sports fashion retailer JD Sports has announced a sharp fall in profits due to losses at its newly-acquired Blacks Leisure chain and the cost of moving warehouses.
Indeed, no matter how compelling the cloud proposition may be, and no matter how much of a megabucks savings is promised and might even be realized, the cost of moving major applications and systems off existing servers is a steep one.
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In a test with around 600, 000 users, Krishnamurthy says, data sent using P4P had to travel between an average of just two networks to reach its destination, as opposed to around seven with normal file-sharing, vastly cutting the cost of moving the data.
Mobile internet usage in Africa is increasing rapidly as Orange continues to deploy 3G networks and make more low-cost smartphones available, customers have been steadily moving from basic feature phones towards more low-cost Android smartphones.
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It also eliminates the behavioral cost created by moving money around within asset classes.
First, they must achieve cost predictability by moving beyond antiquated point solutions and engagements with multiple vendors.
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The simple part is to see that computation, storage and communication are moving in the direction of cost free.
Historically man has continuously reduced the cost of energy moving from wood, to coal, to oil, but now progressed has stalled.
The hardware progression has been from the mainframe to the personal computer to more powerful clustered servers, with cost and access moving back and forth between large enterprises and corporations to small businesses and individuals.
The cost of education is moving increasingly toward us, which we cannot afford.
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With modern technology, knowledge workers and knowledge businesses can escape urban congestion and the high cost of living by moving to the open spaces.
Truth is, though, that in most cases, they're moving around in a more efficient, cost-effective car the whole time.
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But smaller firms that make up the backbone of Germany's famous Mittelstand have also been packing up and moving abroad, especially into lower-cost and more flexible countries to Germany's east.
The government is taking measures to stabilize growth by pushing for more investment projects, reducing tax burdens and allowing private sector investment in strategic industries as China tries moving away from being a low-cost manufacturing hub dependent on the ever-declining growth of the developed world.
Germany argues too that moving first to Ariane 5ME would reduce the cost of implementing the eventual Ariane 6.
We are moving towards a model that offers low-cost acquisition, coupled with high value and high collaboration around a document.
Frame prices are misleading because our buyers want to know how much the whole bike will cost, so we have been moving to that model.
With local bright tech talent like Zhang at home and innovating, China has a better chance of climbing out of its niche as a low-cost manufacturer to the world and moving upmarket.
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As chance would have it, the same week the costly new vehicle concept was revealed, the Navy Department was moving to cancel a Marine amphibious vehicle that cost a similar amount, mainly because the price-tag was too high.
What gives me confidence that Moveline will be around for years to come is that it is both a free service to consumers, so it can build its customer base quickly, but also has had revenues from day one by getting a percentage of the cost of the move from the moving companies.
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For multinational companies reporting under GAAP and IFRS, there may be longer-term cost savings and improved investor relations from moving to one standard globally.
Mr Blair's critics have pointed out that moving people off welfare and into work is likely to cost more in the short term.
Moving nuclear weapons from the Clyde after Scottish independence would cost billions of pounds and thousands of jobs, according to the UK government.
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