New York wins Amazon HQ2 sweepstakes
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New York wins Amazon HQ2 sweepstakes
When it looked like Amazon was leaning toward Raleigh-Durham or Atlanta
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/nyre ... -city.html
With of course some absolutely massive tax breaks. for the party that complains about these huge corporations not paying enough taxes, they sure do know how to dish out the corporate welfare.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/nyre ... -city.html
With of course some absolutely massive tax breaks. for the party that complains about these huge corporations not paying enough taxes, they sure do know how to dish out the corporate welfare.
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Re: New York wins Amazon HQ2 sweepstakes
You left out Crystal City, VA as well. People at work today were salivating about their even more overinflated property values now.
Shotgun shacks are going for $750k now in Arlington.
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That must have been in your news. Everyone here was sure the DMV was in the finals and they are. Crystal City, VA is in the final with NYC. Although prices around here are bad, they're better than NYC and we are in closer proximity to more of the ECB.Pwns wrote:When it looked like Amazon was leaning toward Raleigh-Durham or Atlanta
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Yeah, Crystal City has been a poorly kept secret for a couple of months inside the Beltway. Property managers were mysteriously not signing new leases on major properties since late summer.89Hen wrote:That must have been in your news. Everyone here was sure the DMV was in the finals and they are. Crystal City, VA is in the final with NYC. Although prices around here are bad, they're better than NYC and we are in closer proximity to more of the ECB.Pwns wrote:When it looked like Amazon was leaning toward Raleigh-Durham or Atlanta
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Very poorly kept.93henfan wrote:Yeah, Crystal City has been a poorly kept secret for a couple of months inside the Beltway. Property managers were mysteriously not signing new leases on major properties since late summer.89Hen wrote: That must have been in your news. Everyone here was sure the DMV was in the finals and they are. Crystal City, VA is in the final with NYC. Although prices around here are bad, they're better than NYC and we are in closer proximity to more of the ECB.
So gonna spill the beans now, but can't give details. I was part of the conceptual design proposals for HQ2 in CC but I signed a non-disclosure (as did everyone). It was chosen early this year and the RFP went to quite a few firms. The RFP was hilarious...it was from a management consultant representing a "client" with 25,000 employees...and the design requirements were all oriented around a tech company...and you had to sign a non-disclosure. I wonder what it could be?
And like 93 said, properties went off the market a few months ago...even entire buildings...almost instantly.
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Re: New York wins Amazon HQ2 sweepstakes
No shit93henfan wrote:You left out Crystal City, VA as well. People at work today were salivating about their even more overinflated property values now.
Shotgun shacks are going for $750k now in Arlington.
My bureau keeps telling me I need to go back to DC for a tour. I'm like, "With what?" I'd be broke in 6 months
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Re: New York wins Amazon HQ2 sweepstakes
Thank God.Pwns wrote:When it looked like Amazon was leaning toward Raleigh-Durham or Atlanta
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/nyre ... -city.html
With of course some absolutely massive tax breaks. for the party that complains about these huge corporations not paying enough taxes, they sure do know how to dish out the corporate welfare.
Re: New York wins Amazon HQ2 sweepstakes
You can still afford Southeast. Not Near Southeast. The real Southeast.CID1990 wrote:No shit93henfan wrote:You left out Crystal City, VA as well. People at work today were salivating about their even more overinflated property values now.
Shotgun shacks are going for $750k now in Arlington.
My bureau keeps telling me I need to go back to DC for a tour. I'm like, "With what?" I'd be broke in 6 months
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F that93henfan wrote:You can still afford Southeast. Not Near Southeast. The real Southeast.CID1990 wrote:
No ****
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It's too bad that Amazon stayed away from Red States (I can understand why they did though). That was a chance to turn GA or NC permanently BLUE.Baldy wrote:Thank God.Pwns wrote:When it looked like Amazon was leaning toward Raleigh-Durham or Atlanta
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/nyre ... -city.html
With of course some absolutely massive tax breaks. for the party that complains about these huge corporations not paying enough taxes, they sure do know how to dish out the corporate welfare.
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I guess we just don't have the money for the massive corporate welfare like de Blasio and Cuomo.mainejeff wrote:It's too bad that Amazon stayed away from Red States (I can understand why they did though). That was a chance to turn GA or NC permanently BLUE.Baldy wrote: Thank God.
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Well, given their politics you KNEW it was gonna be a blue state.
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That's OK. You still have your oil & coal companies.AZGrizFan wrote:Well, given their politics you KNEW it was gonna be a blue state.
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We were going to give them anything and everything they wanted...plus.Pwns wrote:I guess we just don't have the money for the massive corporate welfare like de Blasio and Cuomo.mainejeff wrote:
It's too bad that Amazon stayed away from Red States (I can understand why they did though). That was a chance to turn GA or NC permanently BLUE.
Inside Georgia’s secret bid for Amazon’s second headquarters
Dodged that bullet.A state-funded academy to train Amazon’s employees. An exclusive lounge - with free parking - at the world’s busiest airport. An Amazon-dedicated car on MARTA. And more than $2 billion worth of publicly-funded incentives.
That was a glimpse of the package of incentives Georgia offered to Amazon to try to lure the Seattle-based giant’s second headquarters, what was supposed to be a $5 billion campus with as many as 50,000 jobs.
Though Atlanta made a short-list of finalists, it wasn’t meant to be. The company split the project into two smaller sites, one that went to northern Virginia and the other to New York. Georgia also missed out on the biggest consolation prize – a 5,000 job operations center that went to Nashville.
For more than a year, the incentives dangled by Georgia recruiters were a closely-guarded state secret thanks to a state law that shielded them from the public. But that changed late Tuesday when the state disclosed its full package for the first time.
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Educated workforces help too, as well as areas that somewhat give a damn about infrastructure and quality of life.AZGrizFan wrote:Well, given their politics you KNEW it was gonna be a blue state.
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Well, I guess DC does have an educated workforce at least.∞∞∞ wrote:Educated workforces help too, as well as areas that somewhat give a damn about infrastructure and quality of life.AZGrizFan wrote:Well, given their politics you KNEW it was gonna be a blue state.
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Bleh, one place is the capital of the US and the other is practically the financial center of the world. The research triangle probably has higher levels of education than NYC.
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I like this thought mentality. Wish more of your ilk thought like this. Seeing way too many Massachusetts and Delaware plates here in the upper Midwest.∞∞∞ wrote:Educated workforces help too, as well as areas that somewhat give a damn about infrastructure and quality of life.AZGrizFan wrote:Well, given their politics you KNEW it was gonna be a blue state.
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I've been seeing a strange number of Missouris around lately.Winterborn wrote:I like this thought mentality. Wish more of your ilk thought like this. Seeing way too many Massachusetts and Delaware plates here in the upper Midwest.∞∞∞ wrote: Educated workforces help too, as well as areas that somewhat give a damn about infrastructure and quality of life.
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Lack of strip bars.Grizalltheway wrote:I've been seeing a strange number of Missouris around lately.Winterborn wrote:
I like this thought mentality. Wish more of your ilk thought like this. Seeing way too many Massachusetts and Delaware plates here in the upper Midwest.
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Texas is closer, and better quality.CAA Flagship wrote:Lack of strip bars.Grizalltheway wrote: I've been seeing a strange number of Missouris around lately.
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They're a misguided lot.Grizalltheway wrote:Texas is closer, and better quality.CAA Flagship wrote: Lack of strip bars.
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*We'reCAA Flagship wrote:They're a misguided lot.Grizalltheway wrote: Texas is closer, and better quality.
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You shut your whore mouth.Grizalltheway wrote:*We'reCAA Flagship wrote: They're a misguided lot.
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Yeah right. Last time you saw a DE plate?Winterborn wrote:I like this thought mentality. Wish more of your ilk thought like this. Seeing way too many Massachusetts and Delaware plates here in the upper Midwest.∞∞∞ wrote: Educated workforces help too, as well as areas that somewhat give a damn about infrastructure and quality of life.