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Why Virginia isn’t exploiting New York City’s Amazon fiasco

By James Langford
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Why Virginia isn’t exploiting New York City’s Amazon fiasco

New York City’s loss of Amazon’s HQ2 project won’t be Northern Virginia’s gain, at least not right away.

Arlington County and the state of Virginia are working on the additional housing and transit system upgrades needed to support the 25,000 jobs the e-commerce giant has already promised to create in their region, an area just south of Washington whose payrolls are still dominated by the federal government.

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