The company I work for just moved here and while it's all beautiful and brand new, their dog policy is awful. Our company let us put together a calendar to schedule when we each would bring our canine companions to work. We're in ad tech sales and the ability to bring our pooches to the office has always been one of the best perks of the job. There's numerous studies that have been conducted that prove overall productivity and morale is up when pets are around.
The office we came from was full of lawyers, accountants, and all around boring businesses but that property management company still allowed our small team to bring our dogs in. We're not heathens, we looked after them and picked up after them. Other tenants loved us having them around.
I can't speak to anything other than their general disinterest in working with us to amend the policy. All I got back when I inquired into the rationale behind the policy was "it's always been that way". Great. Well that's not what I asked. I asked WHY. Get it together Skysong. This is supposed to be a new hub for tech type companies, but if you don't let your tenants dictate their own company policies, I can't foresee you being able to recruit as many big time tech companies as you'd like.