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Old 03-05-2015, 11:47 AM
 
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Marriott explicitly said mass transit (and the top-tier employees it attracts) was the reason they are looking to get out of their suburban office park - something we've seen employers do with increasing regularity. Office parks are dying off just as quick as the precious malls you're railing about in other threads.
Yeah sure, just like the Hilton chose to move their HQ office to NoVA instead of Suburban Maryland and Capital One is building a 30-40 story Sky Scraper near Tysons Corner.....
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Old 03-05-2015, 02:19 PM
 
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Yeah sure, just like the Hilton chose to move their HQ office to NoVA instead of Suburban Maryland and Capital One is building a 30-40 story Sky Scraper near Tysons Corner.....
...?? I feel like you're trying to be sarcastic or something, but you literally just proved my exact point by listing companies who moved next to metro stations....
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Old 03-05-2015, 05:25 PM
 
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...?? I feel like you're trying to be sarcastic or something, but you literally just proved my exact point by listing companies who moved next to metro stations....
Unless walking through I-495 is considered metro accessible, I dont think Hilton really counts.
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Old 03-05-2015, 08:28 PM
 
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Unless walking through I-495 is considered metro accessible, I dont think Hilton really counts.
?? You seem to be confused. No one working at Hilton gets off at the McLean stop and crosses 495. They go to the Tysons Corner stop, which is two blocks from the HQ and on the correct side of 495.
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Old 03-05-2015, 08:59 PM
 
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?? You seem to be confused. No one working at Hilton gets off at the McLean stop and crosses 495. They go to the Tysons Corner stop, which is two blocks from the HQ and on the correct side of 495.
Actually you seem to be confused. The tysons corner station is even further than the mc lean station to the hilton hq and certainly no safe cakewalk, it's quite a distance from the Hilton headquarters and certainly not a safe walk. Mclean would be the easier station to get to if they didnt have an as-big-as-they-get highway and interchange dividing them.
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Old 03-05-2015, 10:08 PM
 
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Actually you seem to be confused. The tysons corner station is even further than the mc lean station to the hilton hq and certainly no safe cakewalk, it's quite a distance from the Hilton headquarters and certainly not a safe walk. Mclean would be the easier station to get to if they didnt have an as-big-as-they-get highway and interchange dividing them.
Are you incapable of just admitting you're wrong? Good grief.
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Old 03-06-2015, 05:46 AM
 
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Are you incapable of just admitting you're wrong? Good grief.
Yup typing "someone is wrong" makes them wrong. Good job, bufflove, ignore the facts "you win".
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Old 03-06-2015, 09:58 AM
 
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...?? I feel like you're trying to be sarcastic or something, but you literally just proved my exact point by listing companies who moved next to metro stations....
Do you realize that you admitted that it does not matter in the decision for businesses to locate in a area that is near transit because by now Greenbelt and other transit regions in Prince Georges County would have more business growth than the entire regions of Loudoun County and Fairfax County.....
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Old 03-06-2015, 11:08 PM
 
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Their lease expires in seven years -- plenty of time to do a build-to-suit, if the zoning is already there.

I don't know where their 3,000 employees live, but I would suspect that many live along the Beltway or 270. A lot of their potential employees work for other hotel companies like Choice, Host, LaSalle, and Pebblebrook, and many of them live near their offices in Bethesda or Rockville. They won't drive all the way out to Sterling or Oxon Hill.

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You need a really big site to accomadate a million square feet. Bethesda, North Bethesda, Silver Spring and Rockville, as far as I know, doesnt have that much density.
Three sites at North Bethesda have been approved for 1M+ square feet of office: White Flint Mall, North Bethesda Gateway (the Subaru dealership), and North Bethesda Center (LCOR/NRC).

I don't know of many approved office sites in Silver Spring. The county could re-rezone the Blairs and switch two or three future residential towers on the East-West Highway side (currently a future phase) to office, if they're really keen on pushing Silver Spring. It might require more on-site parking, as well. Dulles access is tough from Silver Spring, though, and that's crucial for a global brand like Marriott.

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Has the Exxon site been spoken for already?
Yes, Inova hospital has purchased it.

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doesn't matter if it is near transit.
Doesn't matter what you think -- the CEO himself has said transit, and Metro specifically, is "essential." Doesn't get clearer than that.

Also, is there an echo of "mk8795" in here?
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Old 03-06-2015, 11:43 PM
 
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Doesn't matter what you think -- the CEO himself has said transit, and Metro specifically, is "essential." Doesn't get clearer than that.

Also, is there an echo of "mk8795" in here?
I think you misread the context of my post. It was a brief comment. To be more clear, I was saying it doesn't matter where current or future employees live if it (Marriott HQ) is near mass transit. Then a greater pool of employees would have access via rapid transit in addition to commute by vehicle.

Of course id doesn't matter what any of us think. Does it ever?
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