Please no. Leave Denver alone.
Dear Amazon, We Picked Your New Headquarters for You
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#32Oh cool Boston is making it pretty far (I live and grew up here) > … and workers can easily get around — and out of town … Haha yup and that's when it drops off- WAIT WHAT??
I'm surprised DFW was knocked out at that stage too. From what I hear traffic is horrible in Denver.
I can witness to that fact. It's getting worse each year.
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#33I'm surprised to see Philadelphia eliminated so quickly, it ticks almost all of the boxes, and has a very large number of engineering schools (UPenn, Penn State, Drexel, Temple, Princeton, Rutgers, etc). It's transit is better than many of the other cities, and it has 2 major development plots in the city with existing full tax abatements. Not to mention its proximity to NYC and Washington, DC via Amtrak (~1h20m to N…
It wouldn't be a good article with a dramatic ending if there turned out to be two cities that matched the criteria.
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#34I'm surprised to see Philadelphia eliminated so quickly, it ticks almost all of the boxes, and has a very large number of engineering schools (UPenn, Penn State, Drexel, Temple, Princeton, Rutgers, etc). It's transit is better than many of the other cities, and it has 2 major development plots in the city with existing full tax abatements. Not to mention its proximity to NYC and Washington, DC via Amtrak (~1h20m to N…
It's also smack dab in the middle of the East Coast megalopolis, but I get the impression that supply-chain logistics are being handled at a different level. Regarding the talent pool, as someone who works in the Philly area, I agree it has a lot of well regarded engineering schools nearby, but tech talent doesn't necessarily stay here in the quantities Amazon might find compelling. Granted, it's a chicken-and-egg is…
I would move to Philly in a heartbeat, ad a reduced wage. There just isn't the demand there anywhere near the level of other comparable metro areas.
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#35Oh cool Boston is making it pretty far (I live and grew up here) > … and workers can easily get around — and out of town … Haha yup and that's when it drops off- WAIT WHAT??
I'm surprised DFW was knocked out at that stage too. From what I hear traffic is horrible in Denver.
It is, but it's even worse in Dallas.
Re: Dear Amazon, We Picked Your New Headquarters for You
#36Oh cool Boston is making it pretty far (I live and grew up here) > … and workers can easily get around — and out of town … Haha yup and that's when it drops off- WAIT WHAT??
I'm surprised DFW was knocked out at that stage too. From what I hear traffic is horrible in Denver.
People say traffic is bad in LA, but Seattle is next level congestion.
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#37I'm surprised to see Philadelphia eliminated so quickly, it ticks almost all of the boxes, and has a very large number of engineering schools (UPenn, Penn State, Drexel, Temple, Princeton, Rutgers, etc). It's transit is better than many of the other cities, and it has 2 major development plots in the city with existing full tax abatements. Not to mention its proximity to NYC and Washington, DC via Amtrak (~1h20m to N…
Philadelphian here. The times has a well known anti-philly bias. They're mad about our cheap houses.
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#38Portland would win if it wasnt so close to Seattle
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#39> The company has asked for very specific information on all the state, regional and local incentives communities are willing to offer, and the timelines for how long it would take to approve them. Amazon concludes its proposal by stressing that this a “competitive project.” So let the competition among cities begin! Sigh. I know these could be good in some situations, but sometimes I wish cities had a most favored c…
That works as long as there are no other cities playing the game.
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#40I think a lot of cities would be well advised to steer clear, Amazon would have a pretty crazy distortion effect. It might make sense in Denver, but I can't imagine them fitting into any smaller city (~3m). I expect it to end up in a former rustbelt or midwestern city explicitly eliminated in this article in the 'strong job growth' phase. Dallas, Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Philadelphia.
Denver only has 700k in the city itself, and ~2.7M in the metro area.