It’s my understanding the HQ2 project ended up in Arlington, VA.
I think it was split between DC and NY so nobody ended up with the true “HQ2”
I’m saying the article states the executive team dropped Raleigh because of smallness, but pushed Nashville as a top 5 pick. Those are obviously incongruous.
As I noted elsewhere though, this was the same process that rolled out the top 20 by mentioning the 20 MSA’s involved. The Durham Chamber of Commerce had to get clarification from Amazon as to whether they were included since only Raleigh MSA was mentioned in the original press release. Amazon clarified it was an oversight. But perhaps for those not involved in the detailed report, the Raleigh MSA was the default assumption. I think there was clearly some kind of divergence on the issue of Raleigh MSA and the Triangle, whether consciously or unconsciously, by some people involved in this process.
New York’s “half” got shut down because they pretty much refused to work with Queens County on anything, so NoVa’s National Landing basically won the whole thing. That seems to be going pretty smoothly, with the University of Maryland and Boeing/Virginia Tech popping up in recent partnerships.
The urbanist news outlet Curbed wrote a good play-by-play on it on the New York bid’s demise back when they still called their own shots if you’re interested.
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Well, I personally never saw any published/communicated national reporting that indicated the total Triangle population, and Amazon clearly saw the Triangle as the smallest market despite it actually being at least equal to, but actually slightly larger than, Nashville. All I can say is that you’ll have to draw your own conclusion.
Just as an FYI, a huge huge chunk of of East Cary has seen a flurry of Google fiber installations. They’ve been digging up everything east of Kildaire farm road all at once. All down my street, entire neighborhoods , past commercial areas, It’s just been a blitz. Marker flags for AT&t and Time Warner showing existing cable underground for them to avoid hitting.
I stopped one of the workers who was supervising and asked what utility this is for and he says Google. Will be a couple months when they start to offer sign ups, he said.
From the housing counts of neighborhoods I’m talking about, they have just gotten thousands of single-family homes potential access with cable in front of everyone’s mailboxes.
(All of this is in the last 45 to 60 days)
… March through May 2021
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Google is expanding a lot around me too. Fred Fletcher Park area.
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good to know. somebody flipped a switch suddenly to crank up the installation to a frantic pace, I’m happy to see. These crews aren’t small. There are multiple 10-15 crew members all among several trucks, all repeated at several places at the same time all over Cary. About flipping time. Can’t wait to give Spectrum the boot, and don’t even get me started on AT&T.
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Agreed. I had Google fiber downtown and would welcome it back. They did tell our HOA there would be a charge to each owner for an infrastructure cost, but I’d be happy to pay.
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Be interesting to know what that will run you.
I held out on local fiber due to cost and a few months ago they offered free install and 4x on speed and monthly cost actually went down a little. Guess saying do not jump at first offer or at least ask for better deal.
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Sage advice. Thank you.
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Thank you for sharing! 
IMO the true tell will be the cost after 24 months… 
WRAL posted an article including pictures of what Apple’s Campus could look like.
My favorite quote from the article :
“People will be legally sleeping in beds in RTP in 2023 so we’re excited about that,” Levitan said.
That feels intentionally phrased in the direction that maybe homeless camps were found.
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I was watching the presentation and looking at the logo on the first photo. I think this the HUB RTP. Rather than Apple’s campus.
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It is Hub RTP. I was like I think someone didn’t do enough research. Apple’s campus will most likely be similar to their other campus but with a different design of course.
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I just submitted a correction to the article. 
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Haha you can even see I-40 in one of the pictures
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I’m pretty sure the quote is bc this is the first time residential has been an approved use in RTP. Mixed use is a big deal. Nothing to do with homeless.
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They updated the article! It now references HUB RTP.
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