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Stafford urged to be proactive ahead of Amazon HQ2

STAFFORD -- Amazon’s move to Crystal City will have far-reaching effects to the Northern Virginia metro area’s households. Even Stafford County, which is fairly removed from the D.C. corridor, should be considering how dynamics will change.

“Stafford should be thinking very proactively about the fact that we are a growing metropolitan area in the long-term,” Jeannette Chapman, deputy director and senior research associate for the Stephen S. Fuller Institute, told Potomac Local. “There are always going to be hard periods of adjustment as the region grows.”

The Stephen S. Fuller Institute has published several analyses on how the distribution of Amazon HQ2 workers will affect various regions in Northern Virginia.

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