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  • Occam

    Not Even ONE Indictment
    MDS Supporter
    Feb 24, 2018
    20,239
    Montgomery County
    Wondering how their destroyed warehouse and two employee fatalities play into their decision.

    Not much at all, I'd imagine. We're talking about office space, here. Nothing to do with their distribution operations. Main draw for the MoCo or NoVa locations would be proximity to the federal cloud business they're increasingly pursuing.
     

    TheOriginalMexicanBob

    Ultimate Member
    Jul 2, 2017
    32,179
    Sun City West, AZ
    Like the DC area needs even more traffic and lack of infrastructure for. The city and state that gets the Amazon HQ will have tons of bragging rights but will also take a hit on supporting needs which everyone gets to pay for.

    It's a double-edged sword...if I owned property where they want to locate and they offered me tons of money for it I'd be quite happy. If I owned property nearby where the taxes would skyrocket but my income wouldn't...very little joy. Either way...the commuting time for everyone in the area will get even worse. But...they will have bragging rights to Amazon's second headquarters.
     

    Jim12

    Let Freedom Ring
    MDS Supporter
    Jan 30, 2013
    33,876
    Charles Payne (FBN) reporting that the word now is that the second HQ will be split among two cities. So, actually a two-fer. 2nd and 3rd "HQ."
     

    adit

    ReMember
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    Feb 20, 2013
    19,512
    DE
    Charles Payne (FBN) reporting that the word now is that the second HQ will be split among two cities. So, actually a two-fer. 2nd and 3rd "HQ."

    Dallas, CC, and New York are the 3 cities left on the table, 2 will be picked.
     

    motorcoachdoug

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    On Channel 9 News this morning at 4:30am they said Amazon most likely will split it between NYC on Long Island and Crystal City. How many people who work for Amazon and would have to move would want to go to NYC? They are just as bad as Cali in every way, IMHO in someways worse then Cali,such as parking, rent and or trying to buy a home, gun laws well you get the idea....
     

    Mike

    Propietario de casa, Toluca, México
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    "the company has promised 50,000 jobs" ... What does that mean, 50,000 more leftists voting in VA? While not everyone who works for amazon is going to vote D, this is just another thumb on the scale tipping VA into the blue.
     

    erwos

    The Hebrew Hammer
    MDS Supporter
    Mar 25, 2009
    13,866
    Rockville, MD
    I work in Crystal City, and I can definitely say that the road system here is NOT up to accommodating 50k more workers. Traffic is friggin' awful on the nearby highways past 3PM as it is. Wish they would have more seriously considered White Flint.
     

    davsco

    Ultimate Member
    Oct 21, 2010
    8,607
    Loudoun, VA
    was hoping it wouldn't be anywhere near DC, we have way more than enough traffic, but at least glad it's pretty far east of leesburg.
     

    paperwork351

    no error code for stupid
    Mar 7, 2008
    868
    Gaithersburg
    I work in Crystal City, and I can definitely say that the road system here is NOT up to accommodating 50k more workers. Traffic is friggin' awful on the nearby highways past 3PM as it is. Wish they would have more seriously considered White Flint.

    Has CC expanded into the old railyard or are they looking at NC1,2,3 the old
    Nav Sea Systems buildings? It was FUBAR over 30 years ago.
     

    swinokur

    In a State of Bliss
    Patriot Picket
    Apr 15, 2009
    55,394
    Westminster USA
    Amazon will announce today they have chosen two locations for HQ2

    Crystal City, VA
    Long Island City in Queens, NYC

    Mont Co MD thanks for playing
     

    krucam

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    Glaron

    Camp pureblood 13R
    BANNED!!!
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    Mar 20, 2013
    12,752
    Virginia
    So she wants to tax dead people?

    I love people too lazy to spell out words.
     

    antco

    Ultimate Member
    Apr 28, 2010
    7,045
    Calvert, MD
    Not much at all, I'd imagine. We're talking about office space, here. Nothing to do with their distribution operations. Main draw for the MoCo or NoVa locations would be proximity to the federal cloud business they're increasingly pursuing.

    Amazon Web Services (AWS), is already a $20 billion/year business unit of theirs, and at last check was somewhere around 15x larger than a pile of other cloud services, combined. The cloud and data centers is a huge business for them. But as you've stated, Crystal City would be office space for them; not product distribution or data centers.

    this is great for crystal city. some developers are licking their chops. local construction is happy to have the influx of money.

    JBG Smith began pulling vacant office space out of the rental market recently in preparation of this announcement. Very big deal for JBG Smith.
     

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