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tor of its Metropolitan Policy Pro-
gram, said the company’s North-
ern Virginia move is a win for the
region — at least in terms of per-
ception.
“It’s a big vote of confidence
that this is a community that can
hold a global brand,” she said.
“Even if there are not major job
changes that are attached to the
move, the fact that the corporate
headquarters is in Northern Vir-
ginia means that the company
wants to be known and branded in
this region.”
She predicted Boeing would
eventually add or shift other ser-
vices to Arlington, eventually add-
ing more jobs. Other companies
will see Boeing’s shift as a sign that
Northern Virginia is leaving be-
hind its identity as a home only for
government contractors, she said,
while establishing itself as a high-
tech hub.
“It is a market signal that there
is momentum in this region in
diversifying this economy toward
a much more innovative one,” Liu
said.
The move will make Arlington
home to five of the nation’s 1,000
largest companies. Boeing’s deci-
sion “is a validation of the
strengths of our assets in Arling-
ton and how our talented work-
force is attractive to these compa-
nies,” Cara O’Donnell, a spokes-
woman for Arlington’s economic
development arm, said in a state-
ment.
Arlington Board Chair Katie
Cristol (D) said that despite a lack
of new jobs, Boeing’s decision is
nonetheless a win for a county
that has increasingly tried to fash-
ion itself as a tech hub.
“It’s a really important symbol-
ic victory for Crystal City and for
the community,” she said. “It really
contributes to not just the percep-
tion, but also the reality, that Ar-
lington is emerging as a great
place to be if you’re interested in
technology, innovation and engi-
neering.”
Even without a major influx of
Boeing workers, Cristol said a
$5 million company investment at
its office on Long Bridge Drive will
help to address a chronic issue
that has plagued the neighbor-
BOEING FROM B1 hood: a high office vacancy rate.
After a federal panel in 2005 rec-
ommended moving defense con-
tractors out of Crystal City, it lost
about 17,000 military and defense
workers.
The move underscores Boeing’s
relationship with the federal gov-
ernment, reliant on Pentagon con-
tracts and Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration approval for its civil-
ian jets.
The company’s defense busi-
ness already was headquartered
in Virginia, while military con-
tracts accounted for more than
half of its $62 billion in sales last
year. Boeing makes F/A-18 Hornet
jets for the Navy and military ad-
aptations of its commercial
planes, including the heavily mod-
ified 747 jumbo jet that serves as
Air Force One.
In Thursday’s announcement,
chief executive David L. Calhoun
said the move to Arlington made
sense for Boeing, “given its prox-
imity to our customers and stake-
holders, and its access to world-
class engineering and technical
talent.”
Richard Aboulafia, managing
director of consulting firm Aero-
Dynamic Advisory, said bringing
top executives closer to the heart
of the federal government — its
biggest single customer — makes
sense for a company that had no
deep ties to Chicago. But, he said,
Boeing’s challenge has never been
sway in Washington.
“The problem is their commer-
cial jetliner unit, and this just
moves them further away from
that,” he said, adding that its prob-
lem has been the “de-prioritiza-
tion of engineering and technical
execution” across the board, in-
cluding in its defense business.
Boeing’s decision follows a
trend of global companies gravi-
tating toward the belt of East
Coast metro areas stretching from
Washington to Boston, said Rich-
ard Florida, a professor at the
University of Toronto’s Rotman
School of Management.
Florida, who has studied the
headquarters locations of Fortune
500 companies, found that in
1955, the Washington region was
the home base of four of those
businesses. By 2017, the number
had risen to 17.
Chicago officials were scram-
bling Friday to understand the
effects of the announcement, ex-
amining a new company state-
ment Friday that indicated that
city’s tally of jobs “doesn’t change.”
When Boeing announced its
move Thursday, Chicago Mayor
Lori Lightfoot (D) underscored
that the company wasn’t leaving
entirely. She said 240 companies
had moved to the city or expanded
operations there since the start of
last year, drawn by “our diverse
workforce, expansive infrastruc-
ture, and thriving economy.” Yet
Florida’s figures show Chicago’s
losses in hosting the headquarters
of the nation’s largest firms, de-
clining from 46 in 1955 to 33 in
2017.
“It’s not a superstar city,” said
Florida. “Washington is much
more appealing to highly educat-
ed people.”
Boeing’s plans to launch an en-
gineering hub in Northern Vir-
ginia could ultimately help the
company tap into new pools of
technical talent. Lewis, the Boeing
spokesman, said the company did
not have an estimate of how manyjobs that initiative could bring to
the region.
The relocation stands in con-
trast to Amazon’s work to estab-
lish a second headquarters near-
by, bringing with it about 25,000
jobs. The project will remake a
section of Arlington that local offi-
cials have dubbed “National Land-
ing,” bringing questions about
housing, transportation and gen-
trification. (Amazon founder Jeff
Bezos owns The Washington Post.)
Amazon is spending $2.5 bil-
lion on a series of massive con-
struction projects. It is building
five new office buildings, plus the
futuristic, 355-foot glass Helix on
more than 16 acres that will domi-
nate the skyline.
Boeing and its defense opera-
tion currently occupy a six-story
building and 450,000 square feet a
few blocks from Amazon’s build-
ing sites and the Pentagon.
As it sought a location for its
second headquarters, Amazon
asked hopeful cities to come for-
ward with their pitches. Unlike
New York, which was widely criti-
cized for offering Amazon about
$2.5 billion in economic incen-tives, Virginia put together a pack-
age that focused mostly on build-
ing out technology education. The
state injected more than $2 billion
into its Tech Talent Investment
Program, including up to
$545 million for Virginia Tech’s
new graduate campus in Alexan-
dria.
Liu, from Brookings, said Boe-
ing’s choice to move and establish
the tech hub is validation of that
strategy. Last year, Boeing donat-
ed $50 million to Virginia Tech for
financial aid and other diversity
initiatives, and university leaders
have said they plan to work closely
with the aerospace company on
student projects and career initia-
tives.
While Boeing’s move may not
immediately place any additional
strain on the county’s roads,
schools and other infrastructure,
Liu said officials must still ensure
that the broader shift to luring
companies is equitable for resi-
dents. Boeing workers’ higher in-
comes amid the area’s growing
population will “create opportuni-
ties for the region and also put
pressure on it, too,” she said.No new jobs expected with Boeing’s relocation
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Boeing is shifting its headquarters to Arlington. A spokesman said “there are no immediate plans to
expand” the company’s existing facility, though there is room to add employees.of Rights on exhibit at the land-
mark Archives building.
“It’s something that, even
though we have the original, we
don’t have the copies that were
made to share with the states,”
said Ferriero, who retired last
month as archivist of the United
States. “So it’s important that
way.” Last month before he re-
tired, he noted, “It’s the first
printing of the Bill of Rights.”
And it’s in almost pristine condi-
tion.
The Bill of Rights makes up the
first 10 amendments to the U.S.
Constitution and was created to
calm Constitution skeptics by
guaranteeing specific rights, in-
volving speech, religion and the
press, Ferriero said.
The idea was to extend “the
ground of public confidence in
the Government” and “ensure the
beneficent ends of its institution,”
the document declares.
“It was created because of con-
cerns about what wasn’t already
listed in the Constitution,” Ferrie-
ro said. “It was to clarify exactly
what we meant by rights.”
The 1790 imprint shows the
original 12 amendments pro-
posed by Congress, only 10 of
which were ratified by the states
in 1791, though an 11th would be
ratified in 1992.
There have so far been a total
of 27 ratified amendments. On
the imprint, the placement of the
amendments is different from
those in final version.
The First Amendment, guaran-
teeing freedom of speech, the
press and peaceful assembly, ap-
pears third on the imprint. The
Second Amendment, “a well reg-
ulated Militia, being necessary to
the security of a free State, the
right of the people to keep and
bear Arms, shall not be in-
fringed,” came fourth on the im-
print. And the Fourth Amend-
ment, which protects people
from unreasonable searches and
seizures, appears sixth on the
imprint.
The document is a single-sheet
broadside, a format designed for
the display of public proclama-
tions, measuring 17 inches by 13
inches.
It’s not clear if it was ever
displayed in public or how it
survived so unscathed for more
than two centuries. It went on
display at the Archives last
month.
“That’s what distinguishes Da-
vid among collectors,” Ferriero
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said. “It’s important to him that
whatever he owns is made avail-
able to the public.”
Rubenstein, the son of a Balti-
more postal worker, is one of the
founders of the Carlyle Group, a
global investment firm based in
Washington. He is an avid stu-
dent of history and has made
numerous large donations and
document loans to historical sites
in the Washington area. He said
he is also an advocate of seeing
documents and artifacts in per-
son.
Rubenstein acquired the Bill of
Rights broadside from the family
of the late William Simon, who
served as secretary of the treas-
ury in the 1970 s and was a
collector of historic papers. Si-
mon died in 2000. Rubenstein
declined to say what he paid for
it. The amount was “not insignifi-
cant,” he said in a recent inter-view. “The family was happy.”
The broadside was printed in
Portsmouth, N.H., to provide the
public details of the proposed
measures, Rubenstein said. He
said he called Ferriero “because I
thought this was a document that
should be seen by as many people
as possible. And I thought, where
do people go to see documents,
more than the National Ar-
chives?”
“My general view is that people
should know history, because we
want to avoid the mistakes of the
past,” he said. “I try to educate
people about history.”
Rubenstein has donated tens
of millions of dollars to refurbish
the Lincoln Memorial, the Jeffer-
son Memorial and the Washing-
ton Monument.
He has also donated $10 mil-
lion to Montpelier, the historic
Virginia home of Founding Fa-ther James Madison, $5 million
to the White House Visitor Cen-
ter, and more than $12 million to
Arlington House, the home of
Robert E. Lee in Arlington Na-
tional Cemetery.
In 2007, Rubenstein paid $21
million for a copy of the famous
1297 Magna Carta, a declaration
of English rights that had been on
loan to the Archives but was
going up for sale. He returned it
to the Archives on loan.
On Monday it was announced
that he will donate $15 million to
the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Mu-
seum to broaden and support its
collection of artifacts related to
the World War II murder of 6
million Jewish Europeans by the
Nazis and their allies.
“I’m not solving global climate
change,” he said last month. “I’m
not ending war in Ukraine. I’m
trying to do things that I can do.”Bill of Rights imprint may be 1 of 2 in existence
BILL O'LEARY/THE WASHINGTON POST
David Rubenstein, left, gestures toward an imprint of the Bill of Rights, which has joined the Declaration of Independence and the U.S.
Constitution at the National Archives building. David Ferriero, right, retired last month as archivist of the United States.“My general view is thatpeople should knowhistory, because wewant to avoid themistakes of the past.”
David Rubenstein, a billionaire and
philanthropist who has spent tens of
millions of dollars on endeavors to
preserve and promote U.S. historyOF NOTEObituaries of residents from the
District, Maryland and Northern
Virginia.Chester ‘Pete’ Hively,
TV journalist
Chester “Pete” Hively, 87, a TV
journalist who became an ABC
News bureau chief and a Wash-
ington-based producer with NBC
News, died Feb. 25 at a memory
care facility in Peoria, Ariz. The
cause was Alzheimer’s disease,
said a daughter, Deborah Hyland.
Mr. Hively was born in Trini-
dad, Colo. He spent nearly 15
years with ABC News, directing
bureaus in Hong Kong and Chi-
cago before leaving in 1978 to join
the American Farm Bureau as
director of news services. Within
a few years, he was back in
network news, working as a pro-
ducer on the “Today” show, “Meet
the Press” and NBC’s “Nightly
News” before retiring in 1996. A
former resident of Huntingtown,
Md., he moved to Sun City, Ariz.,
in 2007.Sanford Horwitt,
author
Sanford Horwitt, 79, an author
and legislative assistant who
wrote biographies of community
organizer Saul Alinsky, Sen. Rus-
sell Feingold (D-Wis.) and Demo-
cratic congressman, federal
judge and White House adviser
Abner Mikva, d ied March 12 at
his home in Arlington, Va. The
cause was gastric cancer, said his
wife, Joan Horwitt.
Dr. Horwitt was born in Mil-
waukee and was teaching com-
munications at the University of
Illinois in Chicago when he
joined Mikva’s congressional
staff in the mid-1970s. Mikva had
been a leading proponent of gun-
control measures in Congress,
and Mr. Horwitt later advised
groups backing gun-control leg-
islation. He also ran a program to
get registered high school seniors
to vote.Josephine Shore,
nurse
Josephine Shore, 84, a regis-
tered nurse who had worked for
hospitals, government agencies
and private homes in the Wash-
ington area from 1959 to 1994,
died Feb. 17 at her home in
Rockville, Md. The cause was
breast cancer, said a daughter,
Mary Shapiro.
Mrs. Shore was born Josephine
Balistrere in Harrisburg, Pa.John Crawford Jr.,
energy official, Navy captain
John Crawford Jr., 102, a re-
tired U.S. Navy captain who
worked as a civilian with the
Energy Department and its pred-
ecessor agencies, died Feb. 28 at a
seniors’ community in Kensing-
ton, Md. The cause was pneumo-
nia, said a daughter, Carol Craw-
ford.
Capt. Crawford, a resident of
Rockville, Md., was born in An-
dover, Mass. He served in the
Navy from 1939 until retiring in
1963 as deputy assistant chief of
the Bureau of Ships. He later was
principal deputy assistant secre-
tary for nuclear energy from 1978
to 1981 and then served on the
board of the Defense Nuclear
Facilities Safety Board.David Beers,
law firm partner
David Beers, 86, a Washington
law firm partner who also was a
senior legal adviser to the E pisco-
pal Church, helping guide its
legal strategy on issues including
gay rights and protecting assets
from conservative splinter
groups, died April 3 at his home
in Lewes, Del. The cause was a
brain tumor, said his son-in-law,
David Shenk.
Mr. Beers was born in New
Haven, Conn. He joined Shea &
Gardner in 1965, and the firm
merged in 2004 with Goodwin
Procter. He was counsel to the
firm, now called Goodwin Law,
until his death.
Through the firm, he began
representing the Episcopal
Church, initially as chancellor to
the Diocese of Washington from
1977 to 1991, then as chancellor to
the presiding bishop of the Unit-
ed States until 2018.
He was a trustee of the Vir-
ginia Theological Seminary and
St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in
McLean, Va., and was a co-found-
er and board member of Bishop
John T. Walker School for Boys in
Washington. He was also a part-
time lecturer in Greek and Latin
at George Washington Univer-
sity.
In recent months, he moved
from Washington to Lewes,
where he had a part-time home.
He was a former vestry member
and senior warden at Washing-
ton’s St. Patrick’s Episcopal
Church, where he was a parish-
ioner for more than 50 years.
— From staff reportsobituaries