I'm a long time Arlington resident and my significant other is employed in an administrative capacity at the County's Economic Development Office on Glebe Road.
If you wondered why Chair Katie is being coy about the total cost of the secret corporate welfare giveaway to Amazon it's because the deal will cost Arlington taxpayers more than $3 billion.
Succinctly, here's what Amazon's getting from the County: a $500 million direct corporate welfare stipend from the County, another $500 million in tax breaks, and at least $2 billion in new infrastructure (e.g., schools) to serve the needs and wants of 50,000 new residents who would live in Arlington by 2025 associated in some way with Amazon.
Amazon is looking to build a second headquarters every bit as as extravagant as Amazon's Seattle Headquarters. So you can kiss the "urban village" goodbye if the County Board and Economic Development succeed in bribing Amazon to locate another headquarters here. Here's a photo of Amazon's Seattle HQ, in the event you've never seen it.
Thanks for your blog.
Ted 22205
8 comments:
If you photoshop out the Space Needle part of where Amazon is located looks very much like Crystal City.
I want to know what's in store for upscale retail like Pentagon City. Will Amazon employees ever shop there or will they have their designer jeans delivered to their homes by the Postal Service?
Safe bet they WILL shop at Whole Foods.
Two billion dollars plus for 20 more Taj Mahal schools at $100 million each sounds about right for Arlington.
Look at what Bezos and Amazon have done to the Post. Price of the paper keeps going up. No investigative journalism except about Trump. Post's Metro reporters aren't seen at meetings and events anymore.
So, where's the open spaces for 50,000 more residents associated with Amazon plus 60,000 to 70,000 more residents by 2040 resulting from the County's addiction to "Smart Growth"?
Thank You for this Blog.
How about going after the A-Holes in the Media (Post, ArlNow, Sun Gazette, Connection) who want to make every neighborhood another Clarendon packed with Millennial Yuptards?
ArlNow is of, by, and for Urban Hipsters and wannabes.
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