Graham Buxton Wrote:
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> NS currently has headquarters in Norfolk VA,
> having moved there from the more traditional
> Southern Railway HQ of Roanoke VA some decades
> ago.
>
> Report: Norfolk Southern ‘100 percent’ relocating
> Fortune 500 HQ to Atlanta
>
>
> If a Virginia newspaper’s unnamed sources are
> correct, railroad giant and Fortune 500 company
> Norfolk Southern plans to uproot its headquarters
> in Norfolk, Virginia and move to Atlanta.
>
> Citing “sources close to Norfolk Southern,” The
> Virginian-Pilot reports the company has “100
> percent” picked Atlanta as its next home base.
>
> Precisely where in Atlanta Norfolk Southern
> intends to land is unclear, although Atlanta-based
> developer Cousins Properties recently signed a
> contract to purchase a 4.1-acre Midtown site that
> some say would be perfect for the railroad
> company’s new digs.
>
> Nevertheless, Norfolk Southern is also currently
> embroiled in the ever-complicated debate over how
> the City of Atlanta should incentivize Los
> Angeles-based developer CIM Group to redevelop the
> 40-acre downtown no-man’s land, the Gulch.
>
> Norfolk Southern owns key land in the Gulch, where
> CIM Group has been buying property left and right,
> with plans to inject up to $5 billion in
> development.
>
>
> More here:
> [atlanta.curbed.com]
> rt-norfolk-southern-100-percent-hq-gulch
>

http://www.virginiaplaces.org/climate/norfolkdrown.html

A classic photo from when railroads dominated the landscape, but also shows just how low lying Norfolk is.