https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crystal-city-right-call-amazons-hq2-185538033.html

Numerous cities could claim compatibility with Amazon’s core HQ2 priorities—a metro area with a million-plus people, a “stable and business-friendly environment,” urban or suburban locales that could “attract and retain strong technical talent” and big and creative thinking about the retailer’s space needs." data-reactid="19">Numerous cities could claim compatibility with Amazon’s core HQ2 priorities—a metro area with a million-plus people, a “stable and business-friendly environment,” urban or suburban locales that could “attract and retain strong technical talent” and big and creative thinking about the retailer’s space needs.

But Amazon’s transportation-specific requirements are so in line with Arlington’s existing infrastructure, that the company might as well have taken them from the county’s economic-development office. Crystal City, just across the Potomac from D.C., is barely three miles from the center of the nation’s capital, easily beating Amazon’s 30-mile maximum distance from a population center." data-reactid="20">But Amazon’s transportation-specific requirements are so in line with Arlington’s existing infrastructure, that the company might as well have taken them from the county’s economic-development office. Crystal City, just across the Potomac from D.C., is barely three miles from the center of the nation’s capital, easily beating Amazon’s 30-mile maximum distance from a population center.