Andrew Will Set Up A New Headquarters Of $5 Billion 500 Million In Baltimore.

In the United States, the headquarters of a large company and its supporting facilities are often the foundation of a whole small town, such as the apple Kuby Tino and Cupertino Google.

With the expansion of the company's business, these headquarters will continue to expand.

In early 2016, it was headquartered in the outskirts of Portland.

It announced a huge new headquarters construction plan, covering an area of nearly 30 million square meters - more than the "spaceship" that Apple plans to build.

As the second largest in the US

Under Armour's ambitions in this area are also close to Nike.

In the city of Maryland and Baltimore (Baltimore), the founder, Kevin Plank, bought over 40 square meters of industrial area land at the beginning of the year.

According to reports, this is prepared for the company's new headquarters space of $5 billion 500 million.

According to the plan, the new headquarters will consist of 45 buildings, including office buildings, leisure areas, hotels, etc.

And sports venues, and will have more than 2 miles of riparian landscape.

In addition, the company will provide at least 7500 apartments for local residents, like Facebook.

Under Armour new headquarters planning renderings

According to the plan, the whole project will take 25 years to complete.

But recently, the company's new manufacturing and design center has been put into use.

Like Apple's specially designed laboratory for Apple Watch, there are also ten uniformed researchers, equipment and athletes trained in experimental products.

Under Armour was once one of Baltimore's pride.

From a student venture project to a market value of more than 160 billion US dollars, it is a very good achievement for a non internet start-up company.

But locals are not buying the new headquarters building plan: if a company has so much money to spend, why not help the struggling city itself?

According to the expected revenue, the new headquarters of Under Armour can provide hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue and about 25000 new jobs for the city.

But in the view of Carl Stokes, a member of the board of directors who deliberated on this plan, it will widen the status quo of polarization of income: "if the current situation in Baltimore is" Shuangcheng Ji ", then it will become" three city records "after the completion of the new headquarters of Under Armour.

In Baltimore, the new city Inner Harbour and the old town Sandtown are two scenes: the former was renovating from the original dock and concentrated on the establishment of almost all attractions that could attract tourists; the latter's slump and turbulence were similar to that of Detroit, and the decline of traditional manufacturing industry lost more than half of its permanent residents in the last 10 years, and in 2015 it finally evolved into a large-scale riot.

A market in the Sandtown area was affected by the fire in the 2015 riots.

But others believe that the pressure of urban regeneration should not be put on local entrepreneurs.

In an interview, the 65 year old city councilor, Elijah E. Cummings, quoted the slogan of Under Armour as "protecting my site" (Protect this house):

"Kevin Plank told me that he is not a mayor, nor can he do everything.

His job is to sell T T-shirts and sports shoes to ensure the company's good performance.

If this can help the whole city, he will be very happy.

But the Protect this house is right. It should be ourselves to protect the site.