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Amazon doesn’t need subsidies if it has Crystal City’s proximity to power

By Charles Sauer

Published November 5, 2018 9:45pm ET

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Amazon doesn’t need subsidies if it has Crystal City’s proximity to power — A monitor displays Amazon.com Inc. stock information at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, U.S., on Tuesday, Sep. 4, 2018. Amazon.com Inc.Â briefly became America's second trillion-dollar company on Tuesday after adding $434 billion to its market cap this year. | (Jeenah Moon/Bloomberg)

Amazon has announced that Crystal City, a neighborhood of Arlington, Va., is a finalist for its search for an HQ2 location. In other words, it knows which side of its bread is buttered: government regulations.

The choice of Crystal City is interesting for several reasons — primarily in this case because the choice was reportedly made despite Amazon being offered less in subsidies from Crystal City than other locations it turned down.

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