Home sales in Arlington, VA have increased 17.3 percent since Amazon‘s announcement that the city would be the home of its second headquarters (HQ2). In addition, there has been a larger drop in Arlington’s home inventory, which indicates that the supply cannot meet the demand....
Amazon.com’s plans to open its HQ2 in Virginia got the support of local officials who approved a financial package valued at $51 million over the weekend. According to NBC News, the five-member Arlington County Board voted unanimously to approve the financial incentives despite some opposition to the package. The...
There is no such thing as a boring week in payments, of course. Every seven-day period is good for at least one unexpected twist. But this week wasn’t good for just one big twist – it was something of a parade of surprises with twists and turns, one after...
Amazon and the city of New York managed to pull off one of history’s more spectacular break-ups this week, with the Valentine’s Day announcement that the city and the nation’s largest eCommerce firm would not be joining forces to build half of Amazon’s HQ2 in...
November 14, 2018
Build it and they will come — in this case, times two. Apologies for the cliché (some of us miss baseball already), but that’s the story with Amazon and its split decision Tuesday (Nov. 13) on its new headquarters. The Seattle-based eCommerce operator and cloud computing provider decided to build in both Crystal City, an […]
May 12, 2021
Amazon is hiring 1,900 technical and non-technical workers for its HQ2 in Arlington, Virginia’s Pentagon City area just across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., according to an announcement. There are currently 1,600 workers at HQ2, the announcement stated. The Seattle-based eCommerce giant said it will hire 25,000 people for HQ2 and the surrounding area […]
May 24, 2019
Home sales in Arlington, VA have increased 17.3 percent since Amazon‘s announcement that the city would be the home of its second headquarters (HQ2). In addition, there has been a...
March 18, 2019
Amazon.com’s plans to open its HQ2 in Virginia got the support of local officials who approved a financial package valued at $51 million over the weekend. According to NBC News, the...
February 08, 2019
After facing resistance from politicians and protestors, Amazon is reportedly rethinking its planned New York City campus. The eCommerce retailer, which had intended to bring 25,000 jobs to the city,...
