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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MoCo dodged that bullet. [/quote]

Two completed office buildings, money spent on community projects, and no subsidies actually paid. Great dodge there moco [/quote]
Not to mention all the induced secondary investment. Those peoples reaction is exactly why Montgomery County is failing because they have no idea what success looks like.

They got 8,000 jobs without having to subsidize any of it. [/quote]

I really wouldn't call it dodging since MoCo was never really in the running.  Amazon just threw DC and MD into the mix to see if they could get better terms from VA.  They had targeted Arlington from to start due to the pre-BRAC infrastructure, proximity to Reagan National, and Metro.  Dodging in the sense that MD would have had to offer a lot more to entice Amazon away from VA, which wasn't going to happen practically, but if they did somehow did cave to Amazon, MD would now be worse off compared to if they had not won the bid due to the massive subsidies.  VA didn't provide a lot of subsidies because it was an open secret they were the preferred site anyway, so no harm no foul.   [/quote]
Both Crystal City and Long Island City are very similar in many ways, so it is clear that they knew exactly what they were looking for and were using the whole process as a means to extract more subsidies.[/quote]

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