All right.
What's going on, everybody?
So, in today's video I'm going to be giving my prediction as to where the new Amazon headquarters
is gonna go.
So, if you haven't been following the news, Amazon is currently looking for HQ two, for
the second headquarters, and I think they started with actually over 200 different cities
that applied.
They've recently narrowed the list down to 20 cities.
And, in this video, I'm gonna tell you exactly which city it's going to be, as well as 10
reasons why.
And, just a little background on Amazon.
So, which ever city that they chose they're gonna be bringing over 50 thousand high paying
jobs.
So, over 50 thousand jobs paid over 100 thousand each.
And, in addition to that, they're gonna be investing over five billion just into the
infrastructure of the campus and facilities and everything.
That's not even taking into account the ripple effect that any major development will have.
So, whether it's a Whole Foods, a metro station, an Amazon campus, a baseball stadium, there's
businesses and people that wanna live close to that, so whatever city they chose it's
gonna have a massive impact.
Okay, so my prediction for where the new Amazon campus is gonna go, the new headquarters,
is Arlington, Virginia, and I'm a little bit bias because I grew up there, and I still
live here.
However, there's 10 very compelling reasons why they're going to Arlington, Virginia.
Reason number one, and this is probably the most important reason out of all the reasons
I'm gonna give you, and it's probably gonna sound a little surprising.
The Vegas odds currently have Northern Virginia as a top favorite.
And something you need to know about Vegas odds, they have ... It's a billion dollar
industry.
These people, they do this for a living.
They're ... Very rarely are they wrong, and that's not to say it's a guarantee or anything
like that, but Vegas odds makers, when they're analyzing sports or where the new Amazon stadium's
gonna go, they take into account so many pages of analytics and different factors and everything
like that.
I mean, they do countless hours of research to come up with these odds.
So, you know if Northern Virginia's a heavy favorite they're probably not messing around.
They probably know what they're talking about.
And as far as Northern Virginia goes, so that does necessarily mean Arlington is necessarily
the favorite.
The two locations in Northern Virginia that most people are talking about are Crystal
City and Dulles, the Dulles area in Northern Virginia.
Now, the reason I think it's gonna be Arlington over Dulles is ... There's a couple reasons.
Well, Dulles, it's just, it's too far away.
You're about 45 minutes outside of DC in the Dulles area.
And, yeah, there's a lot of spaces and there's data centers out there.
But Amazon, when they built their main headquarters in Seattle, they built it in downtown, and
I just don't see Amazon going too far outside of whatever city they end up choosing.
I think they want more of the being able to walk to things, having more cultural things
going on, but more of like an urban city, downtown type of lifestyle.
So, reason number two that they're gonna go to Arlington, Virginia is that Jeff Bezos
bought a house in Kalorama, in DC.
I know that's DC, that's not Arlington, but him buying a massive mansion, that he's actually
fixing up and renovating, shows me that he's probably going to live in this area and that
would narrow the search criteria down to three different areas that are actually on the most
updated list, Northern Virginia, DC or Montgomery County, Maryland.
Which brings me to my next point, so I'm not a business or business expert but as far as
business friendly states, that's something Amazon is looking for.
And, from my understanding, I believe Virginia is probably the most business friendly state
out of those three states.
So, I know Maryland is probably the least friendly.
You just don't hear about too many companies moving their headquarters to Maryland.
And DC, I think DC is fairly business friendly, but I think Virginia's the most business friendly.
Okay, so the next factor that's going to play a big role in their decision is being close
to good transportation options.
And, I think Arlington is probably the best, has the best transportation options because,
if it was in Crystal City you're gonna be right next to DCA, Ronald Reagan Airport.
You have the metro.
You're close to highways.
It's walkable.
It's bikable.
You have a lot of transportation options.
When you're in Maryland, you're a little bit further away from everything and DC is just
pretty congested.
So, I think when it comes to transportation, I think Arlington is actually the top out
of those three.
And the thing with the Dulles area, it's just too far away.
I mean, no one wants to drive 45 minutes from DC to Dulles.
There is gonna be a metro out there, but there's just not as good transportation options.
You're not walking anywhere in Dulles.
You might be biking somewhere, but it's too far out in the suburbs.
Okay, so the next reason why they're going to Crystal City is that Amazon is looking
for existing, unused office space, and Crystal City actually has more unused vacant office
space then, I think, anywhere in the DC area, which could be a great opportunity for them
to purchase these buildings, maybe refurbish them, redo them, fix them up and make them
the headquarters.
And to add on to this point even more, this is a pretty interesting fact, so there was
a real estate hedge fund that actually purchased, I think, 10 million dollars worth of shares
in the JBG companies.
And JBG companies own a ton of commercial real estate in Crystal City, and they even
wrote a letter to shareholders saying, "Look, if Amazon chooses this as a location our shares
are gonna skyrocket," basically.
So, this fund is already making ... They already put a ton of money towards bidding on Crystal
City.
So, when someone moves around that type of money they usually do it for a good reason.
The next reason they're going to Arlington, Virginia is that there was an article, I think
it was on Arlington Now or one of those websites, about Arlington winning an environmentally
friendly award, which is something that's important to Jeff Bezos, being environmentally
conscious and friendly and everything like that.
They won this award, and they noticed, I think the company, the journalist that published
it noticed an unusual spike in views.
There was like 6000 views, or some really large amount of views in a short period of
time, and they did some research and looked into it, and apparently it came from some
Amazon internal site.
So, it might have been people working for Amazon looking for the next location and really
focusing in on Arlington.
Okay, and the last couple reasons why Amazon is coming to Arlington, Virginia is that it
meets their basic criteria for what they were ...
Amazon was looking for in their search, large population center, strong university system
and highly educated workforce.
I've seen on different rankings, it's one of the ... It might be the highest educated
county in the United States, if I'm not mistaken.
And not only that, but the quality of life, I don't know how they come up with these quality
of life scores, but Arlington, Virginia ranks super high on quality of life factors.
So, given all of these reasons I think it's a lock.
I think Arlington, Virginia is gonna be chosen.
I think it's gonna be Crystal City, and it's gonna happen in the next few months.
Okay, so just to summarize this video, my three strongest arguments for Arlington, Virginia
as the new headquarters.
Number one, the Vegas odds.
So, Vegas does mess around.
Vegas is usually right, and that's really, that should be the biggest reason right there.
But, number two, the hedge fund or the fund that purchased over 10 million dollars worth
of shares in Crystal City real estate, specifically for Amazon moving there, and wrote a letter
to the shareholders about it.
And, number three, just the fact that there was an internal Amazon page that, apparently,
viewed an article about Arlington being environmentally friendly and having environmentally friendly
policies, and things like that, viewed by an internal Amazon page tens of thousands
of times.
And then, there's all the other reasons I told you about, about being close to transportation,
quality of life, everything like that.
So, hopefully I'm right.
They're gonna be making their decision soon, so maybe I'll have to delete this video if
I'm wrong, but hopefully it doesn't come to that.
So, please give me a like, please subscribe, please share and I'll see you in the next
one.
All right, bye.