The White Flint Mall site could emerge as one of several Montgomery County locations suggested for an Amazon headquarters, County Executive Ike Leggett told real estate agents on Thursday.
The county is putting the finishing touches on its pitch to Amazon and will submit the proposal by mid-October, vying with jurisdictions around the U.S. to lure an estimated 50,000 new jobs to the area.
But Leggett acknowledged that the economic windfall would have downsides: more traffic and higher demand on infrastructure.
These issues are the price of continued economic growth, he told a group of Long and Foster agents during a presentation at their Bethesda office.
“I’ve talked to county executives all over the country,” Leggett said. “They’d like to have some of the growth problems we’re having.
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