Also, an interesting tidbit in an ABJ article about Brandywine:
"Brandywine sells more than 1 million square feet of Austin offices, hopes Amazon will come knocking"
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HQ2 ambitions
Separately, Brandywine President and CEO Gerard Sweeney confirmed during the conference call Thursday that the Broadmoor campus his company owns in Northwest Austin was included in the region's bid submitted Oct. 18 for the Amazon HQ2 facility.
The potential economic windfall from such a campus has been capturing headlines across the country — the e-commerce giant wants to build a $5 billion facility at least as large as its Seattle home base that will house up to $50,000 employees.
IBM Corp. is the primary tenant at Broadmoor, at 11501 Burnet Road adjacent to The Domain, but the site is undergoing new master planning and is large enough to support multiple new buildings.
Sweeney called Austin "Silicon Valley East" and commended its "great culture and an amazing can-do attitude," according to a transcript of the earnings call provided by SeekingAlpha. Brandywine sites are also part of HQ2 bids from Philadelphia and Washington, D.C.
"So I think our goal is we are just enthusiastically supporting each city's bid," he said. "And stand kind of at the ready to assist the cities in whatever they need us to do to sell the positive aspects of Amazon making [a] decision to locate [in Austin or Philadelphia] or Washington, D.C.”
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https://www.bizjournals.com/austin/news/...lls-more-than-1-million-square-feet.html