Squaregrouper
Kragaphile
Crystal City appears to be official.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...ia-for-new-headquarters/ar-BBPEtxW?ocid=ientp
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...ia-for-new-headquarters/ar-BBPEtxW?ocid=ientp
Grew up in Nova.. it was bad then.. worsen every year since the 90s.As if traffic in NoVa didn't suck enough.
Press Release
Statement by Montgomery County Executive Ike Leggett
on Amazon
November 13, 2018
Although Montgomery County was not chosen as the site for Amazon’s second headquarters, we are very pleased that Arlington County will join Long Island City as one of the sites selected. The Arlington location will result in additional jobs, business, and investments – all of which will benefit the entire DC metropolitan region – and Montgomery County.
I want to thank Amazon for selecting us to be on the list of finalists. A special thanks goes to Governor Larry Hogan for his strong support of Montgomery County’s bid. I also appreciate the critical support we received from the Maryland General Assembly, the Montgomery County Council, the Montgomery County Economic Development Corporation, and our entire local business community.
Montgomery County continues to be one of the best places in America to live, raise a family, grow a business, and build a future. Over the past 12 years we have strengthened our fiscal foundations, eliminated unnecessary red tape, laid the groundwork for new employment centers that will create approximately 100,000 new jobs, and invested even more in transportation options and our world-class school system.
This is a great day for Amazon, for Arlington County, for New York City, and for the entire Washington DC metropolitan region.
# # #
Contact: Patrick Lacefield, 240-777-6528
Montgomery County continues to be one of the best places in America to live.
What is he smoking???
If you think traffic's bad now, wait till Amazon moves in
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.
JBG Smith began pulling vacant office space out of the rental market recently in preparation of this announcement. Very big deal for JBG Smith.
Real estate prices are skyrocketing now in Arlington. People who are selling property are already jacking up the price on houses and condos 10-20%.
Anyone who has applied to Amazon will tell you, they don't hire anyone who isn't a die hard liberal. I've been questioned about my politics during interviews.
I've interviewed with Amazon and AWS and was never asked about my politics. There are many libertarian minded people that work in AWS. Although majority of the employees are people who likely lean liberal.
There aren't all that many libertarians anywhere. What would draw them to Amazon?
The new young Socialist from New York doesn't seem to want Amazon. How quaint. If I were the CEO of Amazon 1) I'd be paying someone to type this for me, and 2) I'd seriously reconsider Dallas over NY. Eff them.
https://twitter.com/Ocasio2018/status/1062325048931991554