Clever turn of phrase. My question stands -- what are the logistical reasons for serving a suburban area but not its urban counterpart? All of the other areas being served by AR are urban cores. Mind you, northern VA is not the only suburb of DC.

I should add that Amazon did this with Amazon locker as well. Northern VA got coverage well before DC. My suspicion is some kind of incentive that VA is providing to Amazon, the same one that attracted Amazon to build its huge us-east data center in VA.

I was going to suggest that No VA is more affluent than DC, but in that case they shouldn't be in Baltimore.