Raleigh selected among 20 cities for Amazon 2nd HQ (Washington, Dunn: camps, living)
Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, CaryThe Triangle Area
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Yeah, interesting that there's no city attached to "Northern Virginia, VA." That's very ambiguous. Front Royal? Tysons Corner? Manassas? Dale City? Springfield? Stafford? Fredericksburg? Ashland and/or Kings Dominion?
Yeah, interesting that there's no city attached to "Northern Virginia, VA." That's very ambiguous. Front Royal? Tysons Corner? Manassas? Dale City? Springfield? Stafford? Fredericksburg? Ashland and/or Kings Dominion?
I think they're primarily thinking somewhere between Tysons and Dulles, along the Silver Line.
Yeah, interesting that there's no city attached to "Northern Virginia, VA." That's very ambiguous. Front Royal? Tysons Corner? Manassas? Dale City? Springfield? Stafford? Fredericksburg? Ashland and/or Kings Dominion?
I think you would have to basically look at the proposals they (the various municipalities) submitted, if they are in the public domain, to see where the locals in NOVA truly are. The same thing with Montgomery County, MD.
Dunno, if I were Amazon, why pick an already super-congested area? They are already super-expensive to live in, difficult to get around (even where there's decent public transit), and public services are saturated.
In other words, the area around Washington DC and around NYC would be silly picks. Same for Philly.
It would be far more sensible to go with an area that is already up and coming, where people are moving anyway, where there's the possibility of increasing infrastructure, including the space, as well as improving what's there.
I do think that with the advent of self-driving vehicles, extensive public transit might (I regret saying this) be of lesser importance in terms of congestion.
Of course Raleigh is a very good choice, as is Dallas and Nashville.
The fact that the DMV area is listed three times really says a lot.......They are definitely favored in this match up. Northern VA and Montgomery County have plenty of land and great Mass transit
Dunno, if I were Amazon, why pick an already super-congested area? They are already super-expensive to live in, difficult to get around (even where there's decent public transit), and public services are saturated.
In other words, the area around Washington DC and around NYC would be silly picks. Same for Philly.
I'm not disagreeing with you, but Philly actually has 500,000 less people today, then it did back in 1950!
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