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[quote=Anonymous]read a great article that said in summary - Amazon played all these cities. It got local governments to promise billions in taxpayer dollars to one of the wealthies companies in the world & Amazon had them spending money to compile valuable data about the locales that it can use for its business. They forced governments, which implicitly have a duty of transparency to citizens, to sign NDAs and keep the info secrect.

They held out the dream of possibly bringing jobs to areas that desperately needed them & SPLIT the jobs between areas that would be OK w/o them. Do the 2 areas get to revise their bids & lower them by half to reflect half the jobs going to another area?

NOVA will be a mess. Traffic is already a mess, metro is unreliable & the housing market is already moving out of reach. This past weekend, Metro had the great idea to close the entire Metro subway stop starting Friday - on a holiday weekend - delaying traffic around the airport for miles. It was poorly advertised. Even flight crews were delayed & people were getting out in the rain walking to the airport from the jammed traffic.

Be grateful that MoCo dodged a bullet as the taxpayers of Virginia will be footing the bill for years to come.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.marketwatch.com/amp/story/guid/F14E6ADA-B5C2-11E7-B859-4A9090A04A23

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