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NYC was generally always a front runner. Go on the US forums and people from Chicago will set themselves on fire if you didn’t think they were a front runner. In the end, it seemed like Amazon wanted choo choo’s And very urban areas over anything. Especially since I think the cities that got more visits were DC, NYC, Chicago, Miami & Dallas.
It’s annoying they didn’t let people know sooner about split HQ. 25,000 is still a huge amount of jobs. Huge. But still. 🙄 well over a year.
Huh. Well I stopped following the whole process quite a bit ago so I guess I wouldn't have known who the front runners were. It just got ridiculous. Glad it looks like it's coming to an end. Maybe other companies (ahem Apple) will be ready to announce their plans.
Surprised they weren’t more interested in lower cost cities. I just stayed in Crystal City and it was dead.
Not for much longer. Crystal City's location alone makes it almost unbeatable. It is literally walkable to the airport, has a Metro station, is adjacent to Pentagon and Pentagon City, is in ultrahot Arlington, is adjacent to 395, is on the Potomac, is near Old Town, is along U.S. 1, and is a close uber ride to poppin night life in Georgetown, Clarendon, 14th Street DC, the National Harbor, Southwest Waterfront, and H Street. Oh, and it's in a culturally progressive, young region with a large openly LGBT population.
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The thing about Amazon is that conventional logic does not apply. Having recently finished reading one of the many books about their culture I can totally see how management would go with both locations.
Expenses will be higher but each location offers convenient access to 2-3 major airports with flights continually taking off for literally every destination in the world. It also provides them with an easier launching point into Europe.
Once you accept that Jeff Bezos is not so much concerned with profits as he is with market dominance, you find it easier to understand why he'd be willing to pay a premium for talent and real estate.
I hope this is accurate, I wasn't jazzed with the idea of HQ2 coming to Raleigh. While it would be great for this home owner and the value of said home, it would have been a shock to the system and would have accelerated our transition into being the new Atlanta faster than I'd prefer.
Not for much longer. Crystal City's location alone makes it almost unbeatable. It is literally walkable to the airport, has a Metro station, is adjacent to Pentagon and Pentagon City, is in ultrahot Arlington, is adjacent to 395, is on the Potomac, is near Old Town, is along U.S. 1, and is a close uber ride to poppin night life in Georgetown, Clarendon, 14th Street DC, the National Harbor, Southwest Waterfront, and H Street. Oh, and it's in a culturally progressive, young region with a large openly LGBT population.
I guess I'm just mostly surprised, because both Crystal City and Long Island City are both places that have been touted as up and coming for over a decade. I lived in Crystal City over 15 years ago and near LIC almost 10 years ago. While they have both built up lots of fancy apartments and some office buildings, the other stuff has not caught on. Amazon will no doubt have a huge influence on these areas.
I agree that they definitely opted for culture over cost. I've heard that the Apple decision is on hold until the election too.
Ha, I really figured they would go Boston over the NYC area of they wanted northeast.
Actually, Amazon is expanding its operations in Boston (going from 1,200 to 3,200 employees), while not the scale of a HQ2 or a half of an HQ2, it might be one of the larger groups of Amazon employees in the US.
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