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ARLINGTON, VA — Crystal City has emerged as a frontrunner in the bid to land Amazon’s massive second headquarters that could bring in billions of dollars and 50,000 employees to the winner of the competition.
Northern Virginia is one of 20 localities — including D.C. and Montgomery County, Maryland — on Amazon’s short list, but experts are starting to focus specifically on Crystal City as a highly possible place where Amazon founder Jeff Bezos will want to put his company’s second headquarters, according to a New York Times report.
The Times spoke to multiple analysts and experts who seemed to agree that Northern Virginia — and specifically Crystal City — would be a highly attractive location for several reasons: it’s directly adjacent to Reagan National Airport and is close to Dulles International Airport, most of the buildings there are owned by one developer, it has its own Metro station, it has a prime location near D.C., it has a diverse and highly educated workforce, and it is in the business-friendly state of Virginia.
“There are a lot of merits to a lot of these places, but at the end of the day, all of the signs are pointing to Crystal City,” Amy Liu, director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, was quoted as saying in the report. “I’m just going to say it.”
There are 20 finalists, including Chicago, New York, Atlanta, and other major cities, and many have reportedly offered incentives to Amazon to move there. It is a highly sought after project because Amazon claims it would include $5 billion in investment and 50,000 high-paying jobs.
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There are other reasons to suspect Crystal City is at the top of the heap. Jeff Bezos already owns the area’s newspaper, the Washington Post, as well as D.C.’s largest mansion, and it makes sense he would want to have a significant presence in stone’s throw of a Congress that could look to target his company’s labor practices, for example.
Bezos said at a recent event — hosted in D.C. a few weeks ago — that he expects to make a decision before the end of the year.
An Amazon job listing in the DC metropolitan area posted in late July stirred up talk about what it means for frontrunners of the second headquarters in the region. The economic development manager position involves working on economic incentives with state and local government, as well as chambers of commerce and “other key public/private stakeholder groups.” It also involves “supporting the site selection process.” The position does not mention working with the federal government. Candidates must have eight or more years of economic incentive or business development experience.
But while the DC area sites have emerged as HQ2 frontrunners, Amazon isn’t indicating the job has any ties to the HQ2 site. An Amazon spokesman told the Puget Sound Business Journal the position isn’t related to HQ2 and could be based in either DC or Seattle. Amazon has not posted the job in any other location, according to the Journal.
Washington, DC, proposed the Anacostia Riverfront, NoMa-Union Station, Capitol Hill East and Shaw-Howard University for an HQ2 site. Northern Virginia sites could include Arlington-Alexandria and Fairfax-Loudoun Counties.
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WASHINGTON, DC – SEPTEMBER 13: CEO and founder of Amazon Jeff Bezos participates in a discussion during a Milestone Celebration dinner September 13, 2018 in Washington, DC. Economic Club of Washington celebrated its 32nd anniversary at the event. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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