Some impressive new lighting has been added to the Unisphere expansion at United Therapeutics' downtown Silver Spring campus. Landscaping has also been done around the new addition to the property. Now that Discovery has decamped for more business-friendly, lower-cost, and infrastructure-accessible Knoxville, United Therapeutics is the bright spot in downtown Silver Spring, pun intended.
Discovery's HQ moved to higher tax NYC, genius. Read more; spew less.
ReplyDeleteWrong, moron - the bulk of the actual jobs in Silver Spring moved to Knoxville. Read more, indeed. Take your own advice, knucklehead.
DeleteThat is factually inaccurate. The HQ moved to NYC (do you not have google, or something?). The back-end jobs from the Scripps merger stayed in Knoxville where they already where. Roughly 300 jobs are staying in Silver Spring.
Delete5:13: Wrong! They already had offices in New York, and a few top people moved up there. The actual operations employees - the vast majority of those who were in Silver Spring - went to Knoxville or left the company altogether.
DeleteThe facility in Knoxville is not the corporate headquarters you dunce. They just outsourced the low-wage grunt jobs to Barney Google and Snuffy Smith.
ReplyDelete1:39: They have a vanity headquarters in New York. The actual operational jobs from Silver Spring are now in Knoxville. Think about it.
DeleteThe New York headquarters has approximately 250 jobs. That's typical for a corporate headquarters.
Delete10:56: Most of those were already up there. The big move was to Knoxville, a more business friendly, lower-cost and infrastructure accessible city. New York was just a diversion and window dressing trying to make an unhip move to a red state sound cool.
Delete"Discovery has decamped for more business-friendly, lower-cost, and infrastructure-accessible Knoxville"
ReplyDeleteExcept they're moving to New York, like the other person said, not Knoxville. The bulk of jobs will be in New York. The Knoxville campus is where some lower-ranking employees are going went since Scripps is already there and has been busy laying off its existing workforce.
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/money/business/2018/08/13/more-scripps-networks-jobs-cut-discovery-reorganization/981427002/
It must be very disappointing that all of this doesn't fit into your misguided Trumpian narrative that blue states are evil. It's okay.
9:35: LOL, you just flipped and projected your own disappointment that red states and smarter blue states are whipping the behinds of your beloved Montgomery County cartel.
Delete"Bulk of the jobs will be in New York?!" Totally false statement. The bulk of the jobs went to Knoxville. Cost of living and taxes are a fraction of what they are here, and the infrastructure was better. The Knoxville site is at an on-ramp, and a quick, straight shot to the local airport.
You're probably one of those people who thinks they were actually filming the Discovery programs inside the Silver Spring HQ, too. It's okay.
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/money/business/2019/01/24/discovery-communications-scripps-network-layoffs/2669864002/
DeleteMore layoffs in Knoxville, announced last month.
Saith Dyer: ""Bulk of the jobs will be in New York?!" Totally false statement. The bulk of the jobs went to Knoxville."
DeleteDyer, the commenter at 10:56 AM noted a specific number of jobs at the new headquarters in New York City - 250. You have not done that for the Knoxville "headquarters", as you call it. All you would need to do to prove your claim correct, is show that there are 251 or more jobs being added to the existing Scripps facility. But according to the comment of 11:01, they are actually losing jobs there.
11:13: Wrong! 250 were virtually all in New York already. They did not move from Silver Spring. Do you also believe the shark encounters were filmed in giant water tanks on the 5th floor in Silver Spring?
DeleteLOL - the MoCo cartel are country bumpkins living in wanna-be urban dystopias. "Hey, vern, look at that 25-story apartment building - that's even taller than tha Empire State building! And it's got a salad shop in the lobby. We're just like New York now, Vern!"
So how many new or moved jobs will there be at the Knoxville operational center?
DeleteAparently Amazon is pulling HQ2 out of New York, Crystal Citt is next on chopping block as Bezos midlife crisis starts affecting how the company runs. Amazon's Prime is over.
ReplyDeletePlus the implosion of the entire government of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Looks it's White Flint after all.
DeleteP.S.: I read your typo as "Crystal Clit". LOL