• It offers employees an “overall high quality of life” and provides the company with “a gateway to Europe and beyond.”
• It puts the company closer to America’s political nerve center -- a necessary move because “major corporations like Amazon find themselves used as targets to make political statements. Jeff Bezos has himself become a political lighting rod as owner of the liberal-leaning Washington Post.”
• The rural location is much cheaper for Amazon and office buildings “can be built and clustered as desired, rather than shoehorned into existing spaces. With a clean slate, architects and planners can create new communities and neighborhoods …”
• It is close to D.C., and will “provide a pool of educated workers and a major international airport.”
• At Oatlands, Amazon would be able to “create their own bold vision starting with a blank canvas” according to Best Places, something it would be unable to do in a larger city.

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