...did the retailer miss an opportunity to revitalize a mid-western city by choosing to enrich the already-rich east coast?”
The “retailer” - Amazon - is just doing what some business types do, cut the best deal at any cost. Shame on local government for allowing this. Let them live and commute in the heart of “Amazonia”.
Locating Amazon in the Arlington County area of Northern Virginia simply creates another “blivet” in an already overpopulated area. And politely put, a blivet is 10-pounds of dirt in a 5-pound bag.
If Oak Ridge, Tennessee could be built from scratch and be up ‘n running in 18-months to two years, I’m confident an “Amazonia” could be completed in near time anywhere in the US.
“...did the retailer miss an opportunity to revitalize a mid-western city by choosing to enrich the already-rich east coast?”
High likeliness that if they did, they’d be filling it with H1-b/PERM candidates, unfortunately.
“If Oak Ridge, Tennessee could be built from scratch and be up ‘n running in 18-months to two years, I’m confident an ‘Amazonia’ could be completed in near time anywhere in the US.”
The trouble is how do you justify building in the relative middle of nowhere, or low-medium population cities (100-200k)? Doubly so in regions with employers leaving.
Blivet was one my Dad’s saying. I love that term.