I think the Twin cities has a strong chance to get this.
I don't think the city or the state would be too interested in giving the type of incentives that Amazon is looking for, unfortunately.
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#102I think an East Coast city definitely makes the most sense. Realistically though, they probably can't get enough land in the ideal spot of NYC/Jersey meaning the next best options are DC, Philly and Atlanta. Baltimore could be a dark horse candidate. There's already a lot of construction going on there courtesy of Under Armour building out a new HQ. Charlotte could be an option as well.
Was thinking the same thing. I'll be a little surprised if it's NOT Atlanta just between the city, airport, public transit and Georgia Tech.
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#103Why not put HQ2 in Vancouver? Okay, yes, house prices are unrealistic, but hear me out: 1. Not in the US (helpful for any non-American employees who can't get a visa or don't want to live in the current political climate in the US) 2. Relatively easy for Americans to work in Canada 3. Close proximity to Seattle 4. Canadian salaries are typically lower than America, so this could be a huge boon to Canadians working in…
companies in Vancouver compete for a lot of the same talent that companies in Seattle do. Amazon already has a large office in Van and the local universities don't generate enough software eng. talent to justify having it so close.
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#104It always amuses me how stunningly bad Amazon really is at making standalone pages on their web site. This one is totally unresponsive, has images for headings, and a slightly blurry image for the table. Here's Amazon Locker, which is even more dismal: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Click-and-Collect-with-Amazon-Locke... I guess they must have to produce all this stuff within the constraints of their CMS, but it really doe…
Oh wow, the JPEG block artifacts in the big orange buttons on that Amazon Locker page are really something. Thank you for sharing!
I don't know if they've changed the table image on the HQ page since your post, but at the moment, it looks to me like the blurriness is mostly due to the way my browser is scaling the image down to 1280x320 px dimensions. The JPEG is large (6250x1653 px and 655 kiB) and looks sharp enough at 100% scale.
This seems like a case where using vector graphics would be more appropriate, or at least not scaling the image down by a weird factor like 4.88.
Edit: I transposed some digits when typing into the calculator and initially thought height and width were being scaled by different factors.
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#105>We expect to invest over $5 billion in construction and grow our second headquarters location to be a full equal to Amazon’s current campus in Seattle
Is this laying the groundwork for Amazon to pull a Boeing?
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
cost of land is probably the least of amazon's considerations in building a second HQ edit: to elaborate, what they care much more about, i'm sure, is ability to attract and retain talent in the area. which I'm not sure detroit could do much about. even if you could make it more desirable to live there there's so little talent in the area you'd have to spend a crazy amount of time and money relocating people
> there's so little talent Citation needed. For example, the University of Michigan's engineering school is well ranked in many areas, grants 3,000 degrees a year, and is an hour away: https://www.engin.umich.edu/about/facts/
I'd be quite surprised if Amazon hires less than 3,000 software engineers a quarter. U Michigan may be a good or great engineering school but if it's an hour away it rounds to part of the national market.
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#107Why not put HQ2 in Vancouver? Okay, yes, house prices are unrealistic, but hear me out: 1. Not in the US (helpful for any non-American employees who can't get a visa or don't want to live in the current political climate in the US) 2. Relatively easy for Americans to work in Canada 3. Close proximity to Seattle 4. Canadian salaries are typically lower than America, so this could be a huge boon to Canadians working in…
I'd imagine a city like Windsor might be better suited. There's tonnes of space for the HQ, it's close to the border, it has relatively easy access to Detroit Metro Airport, and has its own local airport for those flying within Ontario.
I'm sure every medium sized Canadian city will be clamouring for this.
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#108Silicon Slopes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Slopes
- Population > 1,000,000
- Serviced by 2 great universities (UoU, BYU)
- Utah is a top 5 state for # of Unicorn Companies
From the wiki I shared: "The Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development allows a variety of grants and tax incentives to companies willing to either relocate or expand their enterprise"
Note: I live in Seattle, not Utah.
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#109I actually hope this is a city where housing affordability is made more sustainable up front. Something to avoid the way New York and San Francisco have evolved into landlords and rent seekers drowning the wealth generation of incumbents
If Amazon decides to build housing and includes below market rate housing for low income people this could work, but given the focus on subsidies and tax breaks in the RFP, I highly doubt this will happen. My guess is that this will only increase strain on whichever housing market receives the HQ.
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#110The RFP is rather more interesting than the marketing page: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/G/01/Anything... The 2nd criterion is basically the total amount of sweet, sweet taxpayer dollars available to subsidize them: Please provide a summary of total incentives offered for the Project by the state/province and local community. In this summary, please provide a brief description of the incentive item,…
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