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AOL Moving Headquarters to New York

Discussion in 'General Chat Forum' started by Lee, Sep 17, 2007.

  1. Lee

    Lee Permanent Vacation

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    Yep this is what I have been afraid of.

    This is a huge blow to Loudoun's prestige.

    Lets bring on the prison builders and fill the county up with junk.

    Lee j
     
  2. Kaosdad

    Kaosdad Will work for Rum

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    Cool! Less traffic! :drive:
     
  3. SarasMom

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  4. Lee

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    Sorry people not less traffic because the people that are moving are few and they are the highest paid.

    This could hurt the image of Loudoun and could hurt housing prices and of course income. Mainly AOL does not see this place dynamic enough to leave their top people here or more important don't want their name tied to this county as a headquarters.

    Less traffic not a chance. Could make the traffic even worse as they now have less incentive to work with the county to make it better, now you have the real culprit even more in charge the by right flex builders who don't give a rats butt about you and your traffic problems yet control the vital points to make it better.

    Not good news on all accounts. AOL should be the be player in making traffic better instead they are jumping ship even tjhough it is symbolic this really hurts the prestige of Loudoun and let us drown in our own traffic problems, created in a big part by them.

    Lee j

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  5. Mr. Linux

    Mr. Linux Senior Member & Moderator Forum Staff

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    Lee, do you have anything else in your vocabulary than the term "Flex builder"? Seems that when anything bad happens around here, you start kicking and screaming about Flex Builders and the prisons they build. Honestly, can you try to get a tad more creative and start complaining about something else for a change? If you're really convinced that the Felx Builders are at the root of some 'Armageddon', could you please at least give some creative solutions? Reading through your last 20-30 posts, it's all criticism and no solutions. Sure, I would love to see some 'beautiful architecture', etc, but I'm not hearing anything constructive coming your way. Sure, the developers could work hand in hand with the residents, yada, yada, yada, but that hasn't happened in years and posting on these forums isn't going to change that.

    You claim to have a lot of 'connections' in the 'building/construction' industry; why don't you use those connections and WORK towards a solution instead of just posting about how bad everything is around here, how the sky is falling, how nobody respects your opinion, how you never get invited to meetings, how all the buildings look like prisons, how the roads suck, how our representatives suck, how Loudoun is on the verge of becoming a ghetto, etc.

    I'm not trying to tick you off here, but I just keep hearing the same old rhetoric from you, and very little substance and/or solutions. The very same things you keep criticizing Snow, Barbara, etc...
     
  6. brim

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    FTFA:
    "The company employs 4,000 people in Northern Virginia and most will remain here, according to AOL's announcement of the move. Senior executives, however, will be transferred to new headquarters at 770 Broadway in Manhattan."

    It's a move in title only, doesn't look like they're moving everything, just where the term 'HQ' lives.
     
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  7. Kaosdad

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    Dang! Still keeping the traffic.:racing:
     
  8. Lee

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    Mr Linux you are absolutely correct in your observation about my posts lately. Mainly I have been disappointed what is happening on the in fill by right properties. and yes many of it is flex outside their where they should be allowed to be built.

    Unfortunately my friends in the development business are far removed from what they can do about these problems. It is really our politicians that have the power or at the very least the understanding how to make these changes far more then the developers. By right and the comprehensive plan needs to change to change the sores staring to dot out countryside. The political system is only where that change can take place if the politicians can work together.

    AOL even though it is symbolic it shows that they perhaps have given up making loudoun an expanding thriving place to do business. Why yes they have internal problems but their physical environment plays a major role. Traffic and what is being built around them also plays a subtle but a very role in how they plan to either grow in an area or be stagnant or start looking for places that are dynamic or the potential to be dynamic.

    You must look beyond what these corporations say and what they do. Moving the AOL headquarters to NYC says a lot about what they think of Loudoun and it's potential.

    Nope I am impossible top p*ss off to any real extent.

    I will slow done my rhetoric on flex buildings and other developments that are good neighbors. But the seed planted here is they have a major effect on many many things here we do think about on a everyday basis and can have a profound effect on our mental health especially driving around calmly. Driving down the GW parkway to work I am sure has a far more calming effect then driving rt 28. AOL giving up on this county in the biggest way is way more then symbolic it will send little subtle irritating waves throughout our community and our everyday life.

    Lee j ok I will shut up for awhile.

    Lee j
     
  9. Baywatch68

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    Yes because they will bulldoze the entire AOL complex to put up flex buildings. Is the sky falling too?
     
  10. Lee

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    Of course:)

    Lee j
     
  11. Kaosdad

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    I think the AOL move of their HQ flag will have little effect (affect?) on the "prestige" of LoCo. Janalea farms is still here and growing as is GWU, Dupont Fabros, VW is coming in, etc.

    So, for at least a while (until AOL has "Another Official Layoff") it's not going to affect traffic, land prices, etc.
     
  12. brim

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    Did you even read the article? What I previously posted was the second sentence of the article.
     
  13. hornerjo

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    Wait. AOL was a boost to Loudouns prestige? :pofl:
     
  14. Mazinger

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    Isn't VW going to Herndon?
     
  15. Kaosdad

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    No, that reporter needs Geography Lessons. The are moving intot he office park surrounded by 606/Moran/28/rt 7.
     
  16. Mazinger

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    Gov. Tim Kaine and Stefan Jacoby, Volkswagen of America Inc.'s CEO, announced the economic development coup in front of Volkswagen's new home, a 185,000-square-foot office building at 2260 Woodland Pointe Ave. in Herndon.

    This is what I read.
     
  17. Lee

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    Well the value of AOL to loudoun can be debated day and night.

    I will stand behind my opinion this is a big blow to Loudoun on many different levels.

    Yes the sky is falling:)

    Lee j
     
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    I was just going to post this. Michigan's loss is our gain. (When those people try to sell their houses - and fail - and then move here they're gonna have some serious culture shock, however.)
     
  20. merky1

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    I am not sure how. Even before the dotcom bust, AOL was the butt of just about every online joke. Realistically, once the cable companies and DSL started becoming common place, AOL was dying. What TimeWarnerHBO was thinking when they bought AOL is beyond anyone's understanding :screwy:.

    So having them restructure their business to "webads" and relocating to NYC is more of a statement of AOLs lack of a business model than the counties ability to survive.
     

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