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Post by Deleted on Jan 2, 2021 17:12:13 GMT
..in other countries?
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Post by sloopjohnc on Jan 2, 2021 17:25:28 GMT
Guess it depends if you believe in a free market economy or not.
San Francisco has very strict laws about chain stores, sometimes to their own detriment.
Even though it's not foreign, the city are allowing Amazon to build a distribution center in what was a garbage facility and it's a big brouhaha here.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Jan 2, 2021 17:26:54 GMT
I don't think this is about "foreign" companies. This is about local zoning. Why the doofus wants to build specifically in Brixton is problematic, being a rich American white male is problematic. He is coming across abit tone deaf, and probably needs to be more sensitive/responsive to the area he is moving into. He may see it as a funky area for gentrification as though it were in a large US city whilst missing the history and cultural zeitgeist such an area serves. He needs to be schooled on Robert Moses and Edmund Bacon and the damage they did to diverse communities. But development zoning is something local government should be equipped and effective at dealing with regardless of where the impetus/money is coming from. Undoing UK/US business relationships would be devastating for both, and Britain cannot afford the isolationism such a break would cause.
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Post by cousinlou on Jan 2, 2021 22:16:15 GMT
In many countries, rules are that companies can only own real estate if the ownership of the company is in majority national.
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