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Not Chicago?? and Rahm’s not running for re-election? well knock me over with a feather.
It’s not real news, it’s just a best guess from a website that specializes in analyzing the best places for things like corporate relocations.
Really, as if traffic on Rt 15 isn't bad enough. No way it'll be Oatlands unless they're gonna build a new city for all the workers too.
Oatlands?
Yipee! It isn’t going to be Austin, TX and causing more traffic backups, higher taxes and causing a worse housing situation.
No matter where they put it, poor old retirees won’t be able to afford their property taxes in a few years.
IIRC, when Disney was looking for a location for Disney World, they bought up all the land under various corporate names so nobody would know what they were doing. And back then it was dirt cheap in the middle of nowhere.
I wonder if this whole competition was a decoy.
probably Dallas
And no, Oatlands is not served by the Silver Line, which is currently planned to end in Ashburn, some miles short of Leesburg. Of course, I imagine Metro would extend the line if that's Amazon's price. But all that would do is put Amazon at the end of a single metro line, not at a juncture which would give employees a much greater range of choice.
But hey … there's no question that a greenfields location would be cheaper, on the assumption that all the local authorities would roll over and give Amazon everything it asks for in terms of zoning and infrastructure costs. But this would mean that Amazon's great location hunt would have come down to nothing more than another suburban sprawl project in an emerging edge city.
Bezosville
And employees renting homes there will sing
“I owe my soul to the company storrrrrre”
It’s gonna help push Virginia from purple to blue. Sorry to everyone in the southern part of the state.
It’s an interesting choice. I suspect the value of the land itself may be a draw.
Oatlands is the next town over from Asburn, VA where the largest concentration of data centers in the world is.
To me, this will leverage Amazon’s growth as a cloud computing powerhouse and also Amazon’s support of the cloud operations of the US federal government.
Regular companies and corporations have Information technology staff who make smart decisions about their IT infrastructure. But the government generally defers to private industry and “cloud” infrastructure is turning out to be a way for challengers like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google to uproot IBM, Oracle, and other systems integrators to haul down IT infrastructure contracts.
So by locating in Oatlands, its staff is close enough to gain influence in DC and also help build new data centers adjacent to Ashburn.
Sounds like a brilliant plan. And if Trump can drastically cut the federal employee workforce in the next several years, there are some highly trained, well-educated people in and around Oatlands to be tapped as employees.
Snuggling up to FedGov. Of course. We are presently a fascist nation: corporations act to benefit government, which acts to eliminate competition for the largest corporations.
That work is done. Virginia is already blue.
In the heart of Mosby’s country.
Hmmmmm. Sounds to me like this is “Captain’s” next project after re-developing the defunct “Orbis” site ... anyone up for making a bid for supplying the plumbing parts?