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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Newish to the MoCo area. Heard a couple of years how companies leave or don't even consider MoCo and head towards NoVa.  Is there a list of the companies that have bailed on MoCo over the last 20 years?  The only ones I know of are Amazon and Discovery.  Who else? [/quote]

Discovery didn't leave Moco for Nova.  They left Moco for Nashville and NYC.  Amazon had already pre-determined their move to Arlington and tried to leverage MD and DC to sweeten VA's deal.  Crystal City has excellent size and infrastructure bones from its pre-BRAC days, a no-brainer for Amazon to swoop in.  [/quote]

Agree.  But NoVa certainly is attracting more corporate headquarters than Maryland or MoCo.  Not even close.[/quote]

Most of those headquarters are around the defense contracting space.  Nova has that locked down with proximity to the Pentagon, CIA, and other recon agencies.  When the big boys come (Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop Grumman), the subs come too.  AWS is there because of the data centers, and they have their subs/support.  A lot of this was set in motion years ago.  Defense and data centers.  [/quote]
DP.. also, businesses like to be near airports. NoVa has two. It's why Amazon originally wanted HQ2 also in NYC. If you look at the site they chose, it was very close to LGA, I think.  Same for the Arlington site.. it's right next to DCA.[/quote]

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