The Washington Post, 10/10/17:
Tysons Corner — darling of corporate America — passed over in Northern Virginia’s pursuit of Amazon headquarters
Capital One, Hilton, Northrop Grumman and other industry heavyweights have established Tysons Corner as a popular landing spot for top corporations, but Northern Virginia officials have sidelined the area in their pursuit of Amazon as the online retailer seeks a second headquarters location with as many as 50,000 jobs.
Members of the Fairfax and Loudoun county boards of supervisors, with the blessing of Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), have decided to propose another site for an 8 million-square-foot campus for Amazon: the Center for Innovative Technology, adjacent to Dulles International Airport.
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Local officials’ selection of CIT, which straddles the Fairfax-Loudoun line, has chaffed developers in Tysons, who have spent years advancing plans aimed at landing such a prize. A new comprehensive plan envisions an urban street grid and allows increasingly tall office towers, such as the 470-foot headquarters that Capital One is building.
Tysons, still peppered with auto dealerships and strip malls, does not present a blank canvas the way CIT can offer farther west. But it is already home to dozens of restaurants, thousands of apartments and four Metro stations. A Metro station at CIT isn’t expected to open until 2020.
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