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Extracted Content: When Amazon decided last November that it would build new headquarters in Northern Virginia and New York City, the champagne corks had to be popping at the Darden School of Business in Charlottesville, Va.
Well before the e-commerce giant’s decision, which will create 25,000 jobs in Crystal City in Arlington County, Darden had made a big bet on the D.C. metro market, leasing 40,000 square foot of space in an office tower in the Rosslyn district of downtown Arlington, a mere seven-minute car ride from where Amazon will put one of its HQ campuses.