Holly Sullivan called Dallas mayor Mike Rawlings to deliver the bad news. The financial incentives from Dallas and the state of Texas had totaled $1.1 billion, considerably higher than the $573 million in cash grants offered by Arlington County and Virginia, though not quite as much as the city and state of New York’s enticement of $2.5 billion in tax credits and rebates. It was also about 40 percent cheaper to build in Dallas than on the East Coast—but in the end, that hadn’t mattered at all. “Help me here, why did you put us through all of that if this is where you were going all along!” an
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