There goes another one. Amentum Services, a leading government contractor in the fields of engineering, project management and advanced solutions integration, is moving from Germantown to Chantilly in Fairfax County, Virginia. The latest corporate decision to choose Virginia over Montgomery County will bring 157 new jobs to Fairfax County - good jobs with high pay. Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) announced the move in a press release Monday.
According to Youngkin's statement, Virginia competed directly with Maryland to woo Amentum, which has 44,000 employees working in 85 countries around the world. “Fairfax County offers the location, access to decision-makers, and talent pipeline that global providers like Amentum are seeking, and we are proud to welcome the company’s leadership and operations team to Virginia,” Youngkin said. “Amentum joins the ranks of the Commonwealth’s diversified ecosystem of more than 800 corporate headquarters across a broad cross-section of industries.”
“I want to thank and congratulate Amentum for choosing Fairfax County for its home base,” Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Jeffrey C. McKay said in statement. “Our long-term investment into making Fairfax County the top choice to locate a global business continues to bear fruit, and I am thrilled that Amentum has chosen to take advantage of what we offer.”
Amentum is the latest corporation to abandon moribund Montgomery County for Virginia, or choose Virginia over Maryland in a relocation search. It joins Amazon, Northrop Grumman, Volkswagen, Lidl, Hilton Hotels, Intelsat, Corporate Executive Board, Nestle, Lego, and Gerber, to name a few.
Montgomery County and Maryland have had difficulty even gobbling up the crumbs under Virginia's dinner table. When Youngkin made the surprising decision to reject a Ford Motor Company battery plant recently, Maryland wasn't even a serious contender to grab the jump ball. That fumble apparently happened on the watch of former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) and the 2018-2022 Montgomery County Council, as Michigan was quickly named as Ford's backup choice.
Sounds like MOCO and MD liberal left wing policies strike again.
ReplyDeleteSounds like you work for Rupert Murdock.
DeleteIt is amazing Marriott did not leave. It was awful close. Amentum is a huge and growing contractor and I am sure the pathetic business climate, schools crashing with lunatic administrators and crime spiraling out of any semblance of control…makes it a no brained. BTW, there was no police recruiting class in all of 2022 so I hope everyone enjoys the outcome of putting our CE and his merry Council back in office.
ReplyDeleteDefense contractor wants to be near Pentagon and defense industry. Makes sense, no?
ReplyDeleteThe way to get companies to move to Montgomery County is to invest in the infrastructure necessary to create a top quality business climate. We need more green energy, more mass transit, more bicycle lanes, and a firmer hand from local government and local citizens committees to ensure that business is fair with employees, unions, social justice initiatives (such as DEI), and the environment. These committees will ensure that companies in MC are focused on more than profit. We need to ask businesses and millionaires to pay their fair share to make all this happen. Once these investments are made and the steady hand of local government and local citizens hold greater sway, businesses will come and new ones will be created (such as businesses focused on green energy and serving the needs of local government). If certain businesses refuse to come (such as those focused only on making the highest possible profit and who do focus on science like MC's government does), we do not want or need them anyway.
ReplyDeleteFairfax County Virginia is going to eat your and MC's lunch Leon Trotsky, Why would a business want to locate in an area where it should expect to be told what to do by the "firm hand of government" which almost certainly does not have any understanding of its businesses needs? This arrogant attitude is PRECISELY why businesses keep passing Montgomery County by and why Montgomery County is rapidly turning into a bedroom community of Northern Virginia, with all the senior executives living in McLean and all the middle managers living in MC. Clarke Construction just left as well.
DeleteAs an example, I work with data centers, which have been a massive engine of growth, jobs, and tax revenue in Northern Virginia and yet there are almost none in Montgomery County thanks to your green tax on electricity and your lousy business climate. Data centers and the wealth and jobs they generate will skip over Montgomery County and move into Frederick County. MC will be a decaying doom loop of a has been county in another ten years.
This is the dumbest comment I have ever seen. It clearly says how out of touch you are from the reality. Stop pushing your propaganda and ideology to business owners. Business is business. Business wants profit. Business wants less control and influence from politicians and government officials. Business build product and service for real demand, not government sponsored fake demands that fit your ideology.
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