The below is a summary of Migration in the Washington Region: Trends between 2000 and 2015 and Characteristics of Recent Migrants. View Full Report as PDF › View Executive Summary as PDF › Between 2000 and 2016, the population in the Washington region increased from 4.86 million people to 6.13 million people. This change was…
From The Washington Business Journal: Amazon’s HQ2 has become a Super Bowl of sorts, with prognosticators, odds and, eventually, a winner. And Washington seems to be as prime a contender as one could be in a season that’s less than a week old. Since Amazon announced Sept. 7 it is seeking to build a second headquarters to…
From The Kojo Nnamdi show: Amazon is searching for a second company headquarters, where it plans to invest $5 billion in construction and operation and will hire as many as 50,000 full-time workers. North American cities have until October 19 to make their pitches. Could a city in the Washington region be the right fit?…
From The Washington Business Journal: When The Who released “My Generation” in 1965, proudly sneering, “I hope I die before I get old,” the band probably wasn’t thinking about all the opportunities that come with age. And there are plenty to be had now that the baby boomer generation The Who was talking about is,…
From WMAL: When Amazon announced Thursday that it was seeking a second North-American headquarters that would be worth nearly $5 billion, local Washington business advocates jumped into overdrive: “This is the Olympics of economic development,” says Jim Dinegar, President of the Greater Washington Board of Trade. “The greater Washington region would be tremendous for Amazon…
