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Boeing Plans to Relocate Its Headquarters to Virginia from Chicago
- gvb 4y agoBoeing moved into a 36-floor skyscraper in Chicago in 2001 after the city, Cook County and the State of Illinois promised $60 million in tax breaks and incentives over 20 years. Tax breaks ended, time to move.
- metadat 4y agoYeah, why not keep the free gov money train flowing? /s Not exactly an environmentally friendly strategy. Soulless corporate executives, what shall we do with you?
- krnlpnc 4y agoIdolize them and their companies apparently
- quantified 4y agoAny new place should figure out if Chicago really thought it was worth it. It’ll be the same story.
- MattGaiser 4y agoSymbolically fleeting further and further from the engineers.
- hindsightbias 4y agoBut are they going to get a football stadium? Defense is going to be the only profit center for a long while. Go west of Alexandria and just get lost on old farm roads. Ginormous estates being built on old farm land. I’d bet every single one is a lobbyist.