Thursday, May 2, 2019

VA named State of the Year by corporate relocation mag, MoCo loser in Halo Labs HQ move

This is another humiliating week for the Montgomery County political cartel. Just as the latest statistics show office vacancies rising higher in Montgomery, Business Facilities magazine named Virginia "State of the Year" for corporate relocations and economic development. Amazon announced that the first several hundred employees are being hired for their HQ 2 in Crystal City, one of the deals that helped Virginia win the award. Virginia also won the contest for the first U.S. manufacturing facility for Canada's Flow Alkaline Spring Water, which will bring a $15.5 million investment in the state. And just yesterday, Halo Labs announced they are relocating their corporate headquarters from Philadelphia to Burlingame, California, skipping over moribund Montgomery County.

Once again, MoCo officials were caught asleep at the switch in the competition for Halo Labs. The company should have been a natural fit, as Montgomery County's biotech sector is the only bright spot in the County's moribund economy - Halo Labs is a life sciences instrumentation company. Their Horizon system allows subvisible particle analysis for pharmaceutical research. How Montgomery officials could have slept through such an opportunity is beyond imagination.

“Virginia snared more than $5.5 billion in capital investment for its top two projects, and its top five job-creation efforts netted nearly 28,000 new jobs in a diverse and well-executed growth strategy that has made VA a high-tech force to be reckoned with,” Business Facilities Editor-in-Chief Jack Rogers said Wednesday. Rogers declared that Virginia isn't just a top player in the tech sector, but is "dominating the field." Montgomery County hasn't even made it out of the locker room. They're too busy getting stuffed into a locker by Ralph Northam.

Virginia has shown it can not only soundly beat Montgomery County in the region's traditional sectors, but also quickly conquer new frontiers. In fact, it is already on the verge of erasing Montgomery's thin advantage in MoCo's only successful sector, biotech. Virginia "can walk and chew gum at the same time—which in this case means they’re upgrading traditional industries while accelerating emerging growth sectors,” Rogers said yesterday.

One of the least-discussed of Virginia's many advantages in attracting Amazon was its cutting-edge efforts in the exploding field of unmanned aerial vehicles, one of great interest to Amazon's CEO Jeff Bezos. Just days ago, it was announced that Virginia will be the first state in the nation where drones will deliver packages, as the FAA cleared Wing to operate a pilot program in Blacksburg.

No wonder Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan is spending his week tilting at presidential windmills, and signing hundreds of radical far-left socialist bills into law in Annapolis. He has no economic development news to tout. Montgomery's elected officials spent the week arguing about whether taxpayers should give County government employees a 6% or 9% raise, after raising Council salaries to $137,000 and promising you a 4.8% property tax hike to pay for all that - but continue to take no action on our economic development and traffic congestion crises. Heckuva job, Brownie!

11 comments:

  1. I've heard you are a SUPER successful business man. Can't you hire more people at SNN? You talk so much about job creation why haven't you crated any at SNN?

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  2. SNN? Must be Stupid News Network.

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  3. The Children's National Health System HQ coming to DTSS is bringing many more jobs to our County than that pot company moving from Philadelphia to San Francisco. And NoVA is getting none of either.

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    1. 9:58: Laughable comparison, as Virginia has gotten Amazon HQ 2 (25000 jobs right there alone), Northrop, Gerber, Volkswagen, Hilton Hotels, IntelSat, CEB, Nestle, etc., etc., etc.

      Damn, you just got destroyed, bro!

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  4. how many employees do you have? why didn't you credit the Muppet image? Don't bother add the credit after the fact or threaten to take me to court. A screen shot says all.

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    1. 10:45: Your comment sounds like a crazy person ranting.

      WHY DIDN'T YOU CREDIT THE MUPPET IMAGE!!!!!!!!!!!

      LOL

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  5. "radical far-left socialist bills into law". Please list what these bills are and how exactly they are radical, far-left and socialist.
    Don't weasel out and tell me to look them up. The onus is on you to make your case.

    Tell us the history behind each bill and what it is supposed to accomplish. Tell us who benefits from the singing and who would would be hurt by them.

    Sadly you will either just delete my comment or try to insult me.
    Once again if you can't back up your claims with facts ..and actual facts not Kellyanne Conway 'facts'

    You will do one of two things. Delete my comment or call me names like a school yard bully.

    Oh and what is this "tilting at windmills"? are you saying Larry Hogan owes loyalty to Trump and shouldn't be running? I say Larry Hogan does not work for Trump and he does not work for the GOP. No he works for the citizens of Maryland.

    You don't work for the citizens in fact I don't think you even work at all.

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    1. 4:29: Hogan owes loyalty to America and the Constitution, and broke that oath by supporting red flag laws, which are indisputably unconstitutional - they clearly violate the 2nd, 5th and 6th amendments. The Bill of Rights is your friend.

      When Hogan breaks with Trump's attempts to protect our sovereignty and American workers, and uphold our laws, he is most certainly not working in our best interests.

      Your Freudian slip at the end - your repeated claim that I don't work - only reveals you are the same old troll.

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  6. How many employees work at SNN and what is the annual revenue?

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    1. 6:36: LOL - SNN is a private company, and not required to make any such information public.

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  7. A blog isn't a 'company'

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