Amazon seeks 'good neighbor' image in Virginia after HQ2 cancellation in NYC - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/amazon-seeks-good-neighbor-image-in-arlington-but-opponents-arent-impressed/2019/02/27/d5cf73dc-3acb-11e9-a2cd-307b06d0257b_story.html?noredirect=on Amazon seeks ‘good neighbor’ image in Arlington, but opponents aren’t impressed Amazon has joined the Greater Washington Partnership, an alliance of many of the region’s largest companies, as its seeks to project an image that it will be a good corporate citizen in its new Crystal City headquarters. The company also recently joined the Arlington County and Alexandria City chambers of commerce and has held dozens of meeting with other local groups as it tries to smooth the way for the opening of its HQ2 and its eventual 25,000 employees. But Amazon’s efforts have done little to appease opposition from a small but vocal group of grass-roots activists seeking to prevent the company from coming. They are pressing the Arlington County Board to organize public meetings with Amazon representatives. The opponents want to discuss concerns that the influx of well-paid new residents will raise housing costs, add to road congestion and displace low-income families. They also object to giving public subsidies to a wealthy corporation, and they are critical of Amazon’s partnership with companies that work with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. On Thursday morning, three protesters from the coalition “For Us, Not Amazon” briefly disrupted a large conference in Arlington organized by the digital media company Bisnow to discuss the Amazon project. Protesters from the same group also showed up at a county board meeting Saturday and called for a “public hearing with Amazon in the room.” So far, however, the board has declined to commit to such a meeting. Amazon’s outreach efforts are getting a more positive reception in Northern Virginia than in New York, where local opposition led the company to cancel plans to put a similar headquarters facility with 25,000 jobs in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens WaPo is owned by Bezos btw There's basically no opposition to HQ2 in Northern VA like there was in NYC. Everyone I've talked to is between ambivalent and "I don't care"

Amazon is about as good a neighbor as the rich fuck who keeps cutting your hedges because he wants to watch your wife.

Like a bad neighbor amazon is there!

A really good neighbor would pay off all my debt and buy me a mansion

A good neighbor would pay his taxes.

for amazon to be a good neighbour they would have to hang themselves on the porch beams

My neighbour demanded $2 billion for the privilege of having him move in next door

Proof that the backlash has adjusted the way they carry themselves. Probably doesn’t mean anything operationally.

Yeah, they're just looking for a place that is spineless enough to be giving public subsidies to a wealthy corporation

A good neighbor would pay their hired help and not deprive them of their rights

I read some wapo article that said that like 70% of Northern Virginians are for Amazon moving here and 90% of Virginians at large are for Amazon moving here. NYC was up in arms over gentrification and rising cost of rent, but Northern VA/Arlington is already expensive/rich as fuck and there's nothing to gentrify

You should probably seek a non-biased source for confirmation.

I can't find anybody who's recreated the poll but I trust WaPo tbh

You trust a source that has obvious conflicts of interest with Amazon to be non-biased?

Yeah, they're pretty well regarded at all other times. Obviously you should approach it with some skepticism, just like everything, but I trust the Washington post in general. Also what they say seems to line up with my personal experience

I don't expect them to make outright false claim, but I certainly wouldn't trust them to make misleading statements or lie by omission.

I trust the Washington Post about as far as I could throw it, but I think I could throw a newspaper pretty far.

fun unverified fact....... 90% of all the Anti-Amazon whiners on here.... actually buy shit from... Amazon.....

it's almost like they have a near-monopoly on access to many goods for most people