New rumour is that there are going to be two cities named, Crystal City is one, Houston and Long Island are the others named.
Finally ...now can we LOCK this ridiculous thread.
Posted 05 November 2018 - 10:22 PM
New rumour is that there are going to be two cities named, Crystal City is one, Houston and Long Island are the others named.
Finally ...now can we LOCK this ridiculous thread.
Posted 05 November 2018 - 10:36 PM
^The real issue is no other municipality wants the CoV issues which were brought onto themselves. While I would never live in Langford, I do admire what Stew Young has done to Langford in 20 or so years or leadership, and basically single handedly
What frustrates me most of all is candidates who say they want affordable housing but also don't want to change anything. In my mind there is only one way to create affordable housing - either allow more condos or allow subdivision to create smaller lots. Most of the Saanich Peninsula is multi acre lots, but the only thing they grow is a lot of lawns. Not sure if amalgamating will change any of that
Personally I think we will only see a lot of change as the older generation die off. Far too many 50+ people here still don't have a clue about affordability, after all they paid 100k for their house, whats the big deal?
Edit: wait, how the heck did we start talking about this in the Amazon thread lol
Yes and no. It was the CoV population that pushed for the Westshore after the backlash of all of the 1960/70s apartment blocks. That was where the CRD budget came from to push major sewer lines out there and punching through the highway expansion in the 1990s.
There is no Amazon coming to Langford, but there might be something smaller in the next 10 to 20 years. It's the only place in the CRD that could support a major player without public backlash poisoning the whole thing.
Posted 06 November 2018 - 09:10 AM
New rumour is that there are going to be two cities named, Crystal City is one, Houston and Long Island are the others named.
Dallas and NYC (I guess maybe that's Long Island) are others I've read.
Wait and see I guess. Probably just pitching for twice the incentives.
Posted 06 November 2018 - 09:17 AM
Dallas and NYC (I guess maybe that's Long Island) are others I've read.
Wait and see I guess. Probably just pitching for twice the incentives.
100% correct. Standard sales tactic. Get the cities to offer up 100% of the incentives and then give them 50% of the promise.
Posted 12 November 2018 - 09:19 PM
Not a huge surprise but multiple media sources including CBC and CNN are reporting tonight that "HQ2" will be announced tomorrow and will be split between NYC and northern Virginia, both of which had been pegged some time ago as highly likely locations for the new Amazon office facilities.
Posted 13 November 2018 - 08:05 AM
^yes its been officially confirmed as those locations. I have to wonder if those locations will roll back the incentives as they are only getting 1/2 of what was promised?
Posted 28 November 2018 - 11:47 AM
Posted 14 February 2019 - 09:38 AM
Posted 14 February 2019 - 10:00 AM
looks like amazon is giving up on new york
Yah, the world's richest man thought that the general public would be OK with their taxes subsidizing his company to the tune of $3 billion.
Posted 17 February 2019 - 05:30 PM
Actually NY just lost out on billions of tax dollars. You can't tax ZERO which is what's left now. It's a concept that's pretty simple to grasp really.
Posted 17 February 2019 - 07:11 PM
Posted 17 February 2019 - 07:14 PM
Actually NY just lost out on billions of tax dollars. You can't tax ZERO which is what's left now. It's a concept that's pretty simple to grasp really.
These are the same sort of folks that think "budgets balance themselves."
Posted 18 February 2019 - 09:56 AM
Yah, the world's richest man thought that the general public would be OK with their taxes subsidizing his company to the tune of $3 billion.
The "subsidy" was in the form of a tax holiday for a period of time. Presumably Amazon would have paid for more in other forms of tax then they would have saved in property taxes. No different then the tax holidays that Victoria council plans to give to developers who build affordable housing.
Posted 18 February 2019 - 11:56 AM
looks like amazon is giving up on new york
maybe Langford thinks they have a shot again haha
Posted 20 February 2019 - 05:23 AM
The problem for Amazon is it is a 'they' instead of an 'it', 'they' = people, persons, founders, families etc. and they appeared to be behaving like a large predator. They were.
People, persons, founders, families generally don't squeeze their family, neighbours, schools, hospitals and so on for money.
Corporations do.
The push to be authentic, have a personality, in essence to be a human vs. what it really is, a corporation, is punishing plenty of businesses.
In the case of Amazon the 'authentic founder' is the 'face', approachable etc.
Sensing blood-in-the-water some politicians ran with it.
Amazon figured it out, almost too late and pulled-the-pin - Amazon saved the 'corporation' from an absolute PR nightmare that certainly would have gone global with huge consequences for Amazon. Bet we won't be seeing this size of corporation running another "no-tax for jobs & development" campaign anytime soon.
PS. Mayor of Langford should take note.
Edited by VIResident, 20 February 2019 - 05:24 AM.
Posted 20 February 2019 - 05:31 AM
Posted 20 February 2019 - 06:22 AM
they probably did play it poorly. they will get better.
An AI certainty.
Posted 20 February 2019 - 08:24 AM
The problem for Amazon is it is a 'they' instead of an 'it', 'they' = people, persons, founders, families etc. and they appeared to be behaving like a large predator. They were.
People, persons, founders, families generally don't squeeze their family, neighbours, schools, hospitals and so on for money.
Corporations do.
The push to be authentic, have a personality, in essence to be a human vs. what it really is, a corporation, is punishing plenty of businesses.
In the case of Amazon the 'authentic founder' is the 'face', approachable etc.
Sensing blood-in-the-water some politicians ran with it.
Amazon figured it out, almost too late and pulled-the-pin - Amazon saved the 'corporation' from an absolute PR nightmare that certainly would have gone global with huge consequences for Amazon. Bet we won't be seeing this size of corporation running another "no-tax for jobs & development" campaign anytime soon.
PS. Mayor of Langford should take note.
Google was about to ask Toronto for a cut of Development Cost Charges and property taxes as part of their Sidewalk Labs development. They have a bit of a PR nightmare now.
Posted 27 February 2019 - 07:08 PM
Sounds like we dodged a bullet not having to deal with these guys. They seem like real jerks.
Amazon threatened to abandon a prominent downtown Seattle office project if the the city imposed a so-called head tax. The city ultimately did not impose the tax, and now Amazon is abandoning the project anyway.https://www.seattlet...ned_buffer_tw_m
The annual tax of $275 per employee on companies grossing at least $20 million per year would have raised about $47 million in 2019 for low-income housing and homeless services. Kshama Sawant, one of two council members who opposed the repeal, described Amazon’s Rainier Square announcement Wednesday as a “told you so” moment.
“This is a good reminder for us that backing down to the bullying of corporations never stops their bullying,” said Sawant, praising activists in New York City who protested tax breaks for Amazon, causing the company to pull out from its campus plans there.
Posted 10 May 2019 - 02:18 PM
Edited by todd, 10 May 2019 - 02:22 PM.
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