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An 'innovation campus' in Fairfax County? Victor Hoskins wants to make it happen.

As one of the lead negotiators involved in bringing Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) to Arlington County, Victor Hoskins also helped Alexandria land Virginia Tech’s new “Innovation Campus” — and now that he’s changed jobs, he wants to help Fairfax County do the same. Hoskins made the leap to head up the county’s economic development efforts in early July, and he said he hopes to replicate many of the strategies he deployed in Arlington in his new home. George Mason University is hard at work on a similar expansion of its Arlington campus, pledging to add new computing and data science programs not far from Amazon’s new home. Read More...

An ‘innovation campus’ in Fairfax County? Victor Hoskins wants to make it happen.

As one of the lead negotiators involved in bringing Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) to Arlington County, Victor Hoskins also helped Alexandria land Virginia Tech’s new “Innovation Campus” — and now that he’s changed jobs, he wants to help Fairfax County do the same. Hoskins made the leap to head up the county’s economic development efforts in early July, and he said he hopes to replicate many of the strategies he deployed in Arlington in his new home. George Mason University is hard at work on a similar expansion of its Arlington campus, pledging to add new computing and data science programs not far from Amazon’s new home.

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