diff --git a/extensions/typescript/src/features/definitionProviderBase.ts b/extensions/typescript/src/features/definitionProviderBase.ts
index 154a71afdeb..61bfa2992a5 100644
--- a/extensions/typescript/src/features/definitionProviderBase.ts
+++ b/extensions/typescript/src/features/definitionProviderBase.ts
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ export default class TypeScriptDefinitionProviderBase {
 			return locations.map(location => {
 				const resource = this.client.asUrl(location.file);
 				return resource
-					? new Location(resource, typeConverters.Range.fromTextSpan(location))
+					? typeConverters.Location.fromTextSpan(resource, location)
 					: undefined;
 			}).filter(x => x) as Location[];
 		} catch {
diff --git a/extensions/typescript/src/features/documentSymbolProvider.ts b/extensions/typescript/src/features/documentSymbolProvider.ts
index 3758e865025..329e1adb4e0 100644
--- a/extensions/typescript/src/features/documentSymbolProvider.ts
+++ b/extensions/typescript/src/features/documentSymbolProvider.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *  Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
  *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 
-import { DocumentSymbolProvider, SymbolInformation, SymbolKind, TextDocument, Location, CancellationToken, Uri } from 'vscode';
+import { DocumentSymbolProvider, SymbolInformation, SymbolKind, TextDocument, CancellationToken, Uri } from 'vscode';
 
 import * as Proto from '../protocol';
 import * as PConst from '../protocol.const';
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ export default class TypeScriptDocumentSymbolProvider implements DocumentSymbolP
 			let result = new SymbolInformation(item.text,
 				outlineTypeTable[item.kind as string] || SymbolKind.Variable,
 				containerLabel ? containerLabel : '',
-				new Location(resource, typeConverters.Range.fromTextSpan(item.spans[0])));
+				typeConverters.Location.fromTextSpan(resource, item.spans[0]));
 			foldingMap[key] = result;
 			bucket.push(result);
 		}
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ export default class TypeScriptDocumentSymbolProvider implements DocumentSymbolP
 		const result = new SymbolInformation(item.text,
 			outlineTypeTable[item.kind as string] || SymbolKind.Variable,
 			containerLabel ? containerLabel : '',
-			new Location(resource, typeConverters.Range.fromTextSpan(item.spans[0]))
+			typeConverters.Location.fromTextSpan(resource, item.spans[0])
 		);
 		if (item.childItems && item.childItems.length > 0) {
 			for (const child of item.childItems) {
diff --git a/extensions/typescript/src/features/referenceProvider.ts b/extensions/typescript/src/features/referenceProvider.ts
index 348d6944e19..a8eee0cb984 100644
--- a/extensions/typescript/src/features/referenceProvider.ts
+++ b/extensions/typescript/src/features/referenceProvider.ts
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ export default class TypeScriptReferenceSupport implements ReferenceProvider {
 					continue;
 				}
 				const url = this.client.asUrl(ref.file);
-				const location = new Location(url, typeConverters.Range.fromTextSpan(ref));
+				const location = typeConverters.Location.fromTextSpan(url, ref);
 				result.push(location);
 			}
 			return result;
diff --git a/extensions/typescript/src/features/referencesCodeLensProvider.ts b/extensions/typescript/src/features/referencesCodeLensProvider.ts
index ae9a1e2944a..fdff948985d 100644
--- a/extensions/typescript/src/features/referencesCodeLensProvider.ts
+++ b/extensions/typescript/src/features/referencesCodeLensProvider.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *  Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
  *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 
-import { CodeLens, CancellationToken, TextDocument, Range, Location, workspace } from 'vscode';
+import { CodeLens, CancellationToken, TextDocument, Range, workspace } from 'vscode';
 import * as Proto from '../protocol';
 import * as PConst from '../protocol.const';
 
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ export default class TypeScriptReferencesCodeLensProvider extends TypeScriptBase
 
 			const locations = response.body.refs
 				.map(reference =>
-					new Location(this.client.asUrl(reference.file), typeConverters.Range.fromTextSpan(reference)))
+					typeConverters.Location.fromTextSpan(this.client.asUrl(reference.file), reference))
 				.filter(location =>
 					// Exclude original definition from references
 					!(location.uri.toString() === codeLens.document.toString() &&
diff --git a/extensions/typescript/src/features/workspaceSymbolProvider.ts b/extensions/typescript/src/features/workspaceSymbolProvider.ts
index fc5c6d4b02c..46e4e1cf3ed 100644
--- a/extensions/typescript/src/features/workspaceSymbolProvider.ts
+++ b/extensions/typescript/src/features/workspaceSymbolProvider.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  *  Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
  *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
 
-import { workspace, window, Uri, WorkspaceSymbolProvider, SymbolInformation, SymbolKind, Location, CancellationToken } from 'vscode';
+import { workspace, window, Uri, WorkspaceSymbolProvider, SymbolInformation, SymbolKind, CancellationToken } from 'vscode';
 
 import * as Proto from '../protocol';
 import { ITypeScriptServiceClient } from '../typescriptService';
@@ -71,10 +71,9 @@ export default class TypeScriptWorkspaceSymbolProvider implements WorkspaceSymbo
 			if (!item.containerName && item.kind === 'alias') {
 				continue;
 			}
-			const range = typeConverters.Range.fromTextSpan(item);
 			const label = TypeScriptWorkspaceSymbolProvider.getLabel(item);
 			result.push(new SymbolInformation(label, getSymbolKind(item), item.containerName || '',
-				new Location(this.client.asUrl(item.file), range)));
+				typeConverters.Location.fromTextSpan(this.client.asUrl(item.file), item)));
 		}
 		return result;
 	}
diff --git a/extensions/typescript/src/utils/typeConverters.ts b/extensions/typescript/src/utils/typeConverters.ts
index ab58ebc49d7..8975e325508 100644
--- a/extensions/typescript/src/utils/typeConverters.ts
+++ b/extensions/typescript/src/utils/typeConverters.ts
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ export namespace Position {
 	});
 }
 
+export namespace Location {
+	export const fromTextSpan = (resource: vscode.Uri, tsTextSpan: Proto.TextSpan): vscode.Location =>
+		new vscode.Location(resource, Range.fromTextSpan(tsTextSpan));
+}
+
 export namespace TextEdit {
 	export const fromCodeEdit = (edit: Proto.CodeEdit): vscode.TextEdit =>
 		new vscode.TextEdit(