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Dan and Axios' Erica Pandey break down Amazon's reported decision to put half of its HQ2 in Northern Virginia, and the other half in Queens.
"Cities came forward with these elaborate applications that let Amazon in on all of their hopes and dreams, what they planned to build, what highways they planned to build, and now Amazon is... walking away with this incredibly granular economic development database of every major metro area in North America."
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