Amazon angry over leaks of conversations with Northern VA about HQ2, ironically published by the Post

Tom Paine


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A Washington Post report that Amazon is in advanced talks with a Northern Virginia suburb about being the location for its second headquarters has raised Amazon's ire.

And Amazon's Mike Grella tweeted this afternoon addressing “the genius leaking info,” saying: “You’re not doing Crystal City, VA any favors".
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Memo to the genius leaking info about Crystal City, VA as #HQ2 selection. You’re not doing Crystal City, VA any favors. And stop treating the NDA you signed like a used napkin. https://t.co/wqrZLqr8MQ

— Mike Grella (@MikeGrella) November 3, 2018

But I take this as an acknowledgement that such talks are ongoing....


But its nothing new; I wrote this article back in September:

An HQ2 hopeful down I-95 hopes

Speculation is encircling the DC area, as it has for awhile, building towards a perhaps premature conclusion that the Capitol region - most likely Northern Virginia - will be Amazon's choice for HQ2.

Jeff Bezos and Amazon's entire board is in town today. And the clincher for some - Amazon this week joined the DC Chamber of Commerce.

Northern Virginia has been Amazon's largest computing region since the company's beginnigs. A Maryland-based real estate firm has just purchased a big block of land near the Fairfax County / Loudon County border for Amazon, with the expressed aim of building more Amazon data centers. Amazon was already planning to build a campus-like facility in Northern Virginia in addition to data centers.

But some say Amazon is looking at Arlington's Crystal City, a high rise development that has never really taken off, as the site for HQ2. Crystal City is just a hop and a skip across the Potomac from DC.

The streets of Crystal City