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Amazon’s New Arlington HQ Looks To Hire 400 This Year

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Amazon has announced that it’s looking to fill jobs for its new headquarters in Arlington, Va., and to help build up the community, according to a blog post. The company said it wants to create 400 jobs this year and about 25,000 in the next 10 years and beyond.

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Nestle, HelloFresh Give Meal Kits Second Wind In Stay-at-Home Economy

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It is currently working to temporarily reopen its Arlington, Texas plant in an effort to keep up with demand. Blue Apron has also had trouble meeting labor demands, according to reports.

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Cities Partner With Apps To Create Their Own Ridesharing Services

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The city of Arlington, Texas, located just outside Dallas, for example, had a single bus route — and discovered that most of its riders were students at the University of Texas branch there. So, late last year, Arlington voted to end the route and replaced it with a ridesharing service in December. Like a few communities in the U.S.,

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Amazon, JPMorgan Donate Money To Ease Coronavirus Crisis

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that are fighting the coronavirus: ACT for Alexandria , Arlington Community Foundation , Community Foundation for Northern Virginia and the Greater Washington Community Foundation. The company is going to donate $1 million between four organizations in Washington, D.C.

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Amazon HQ2 Triggers Spike In VA Home Sales

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Home sales in Arlington, VA have increased 17.3 In addition, there has been a larger drop in Arlington’s home inventory, which indicates that the supply cannot meet the demand. With a household name as big as Amazon moving into Arlington’s backyard, we expected that home prices were going to increase. million — a 22.1

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Local Governments Move In On Retail Vacancies

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Arlington, Massachusetts, passed a measure in 2017 that fines landlords $400 annually for each vacant storefront. In a year, 17 empty storefronts in Arlington Center, the historic business center of town, decreased by 11. And coincidentally, the city of Arlington, Virginia is doing the same. Oftentimes, this is not the case.

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Amazon’s Biggest Campus In The World Opens In India

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The company’s next headquarters is being built in Arlington, Virginia. Amazon was going to build a huge new headquarters in New York, but eventually decided against it, due to local opposition and despite tax breaks. The newest campus is on 9.5 acres and cost “hundreds of millions of dollars,” Amazon said.

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