New York wins Amazon HQ2 sweepstakes

[Pwns]

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.

[93henfan]

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.

[89Hen]

When it looked like Amazon was leaning toward Raleigh-Durham or Atlanta

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.

[93henfan]

When it looked like Amazon was leaning toward Raleigh-Durham or Atlanta

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Very poorly kept.

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.

[CID1990]

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.

No shit

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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[Baldy]

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.

Thank God.

[93henfan]

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.

No shit

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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You can still afford Southeast. Not Near Southeast. The real Southeast.

[CID1990]

No ****

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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You can still afford Southeast. Not Near Southeast. The real Southeast.

F that


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[mainejeff]

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.

Thank God.

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.

[Pwns]

Thank God.

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.

I guess we just don't have the money for the massive corporate welfare like de Blasio and Cuomo.

[AZGrizFan]

Well, given their politics you KNEW it was gonna be a blue state.

[mainejeff]

Well, given their politics you KNEW it was gonna be a blue state.

That's OK. You still have your oil & coal companies.

[Baldy]

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.

I guess we just don't have the money for the massive corporate welfare like de Blasio and Cuomo.

We were going to give them anything and everything they wanted...plus.

Inside Georgia’s secret bid for Amazon’s second headquarters

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.

Here’s what we learned:

Dodged that bullet.

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Well, given their politics you KNEW it was gonna be a blue state.

Educated workforces help too, as well as areas that somewhat give a damn about infrastructure and quality of life.

[93henfan]

Well, given their politics you KNEW it was gonna be a blue state.

Educated workforces help too, as well as areas that somewhat give a damn about infrastructure and quality of life.

Well, I guess DC does have an educated workforce at least.

[Pwns]

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.

[Winterborn]

Well, given their politics you KNEW it was gonna be a blue state.

Educated workforces help too, as well as areas that somewhat give a damn about infrastructure and quality of life.

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.

[Grizalltheway]

Educated workforces help too, as well as areas that somewhat give a damn about infrastructure and quality of life.

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.

I've been seeing a strange number of Missouris around lately.

WHAT IN THE FUCK IS GOING ON, FLAGGY??

[CAA Flagship]

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.

I've been seeing a strange number of Missouris around lately.

WHAT IN THE FUCK IS GOING ON, FLAGGY??

Lack of strip bars.

[Grizalltheway]

I've been seeing a strange number of Missouris around lately.

WHAT IN THE FUCK IS GOING ON, FLAGGY??

Lack of strip bars.

Texas is closer, and better quality.

[CAA Flagship]

Lack of strip bars.

Texas is closer, and better quality.

They're a misguided lot.

[Grizalltheway]

Texas is closer, and better quality.

They're a misguided lot.

*We're

[CAA Flagship]

They're a misguided lot.

*We're

You shut your whore mouth.

[89Hen]

Educated workforces help too, as well as areas that somewhat give a damn about infrastructure and quality of life.

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.

Yeah right. Last time you saw a DE plate?