Richmond has shot at landing Amazon`s headquarters, CoStar CEO says at VCU real estate conference
(WorldNews Sport)

Andrew C. Florance sat incognito for the most part in the audience last year of the annual Real Estate Trends Conference hosted by Virginia Commonwealth University, trying to decide whether to relocate the global research headquarters for CoStar Group Inc. to Richmond. Thursday, as the lead speaker of the 27th annual conference, Florance told 1,500 people in attendance why the Washington-based commercial real estate and analytics firm chose Richmond as a hub for one of the most innovative and fastest growing companies in the world. Florance, CEO and founder of CoStar, was able to check off a lot of boxes for Richmond - quality of life, low crime rates and lack of traffic congestion - but...