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Re: Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2

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Post by Erik816 »

fetus8 wrote: post #86
robbiemitchell wrote: post #43

NYT walked through a process of elimination and concluded it will be Denver. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/09/upshot/where-...

As a Colorado resident, I'd love for them to pick anywhere BUT Denver. We already have major issues with homelessness, and rapidly rising cost of living. Our highways and infrastructure are beyond congested already, and our public transit is pretty half assed. If Amazon is going to build HQ2 here, they better help contribute to improving public transit, creating affordable housing, and help improve the highways to ha…

Considering that's a very accurate description of Seattle, I'd say your doubts are well founded.

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Post by cbHXBY1D »

_m8fo wrote: post #50

I feel as though there are too many cities. I'd be curious to know what the top 5 are. My picks, in no particular order: - Boston - Dallas - Atlanta - Chicago - Denver In all likelihood it'll be Boston or Denver.

These are 5 of the most likely but who is giving the biggest tax breaks?

Knowing how Bezos works, I guarantee he has a team who are creating spreadsheet after spreadsheet, and the winning city will be chosen by some algorithm which saves them the most money over time.

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Post by xefer »

_m8fo wrote: post #50

I feel as though there are too many cities. I'd be curious to know what the top 5 are. My picks, in no particular order: - Boston - Dallas - Atlanta - Chicago - Denver In all likelihood it'll be Boston or Denver.

The location the Boston group has proposed for Amazon is the Suffolk Downs race track site on the East Boston - Revere town line. Perhaps with all the Amazon building the area would improve, but the place feels like a wasteland right now.

It's on the other side of Logan airport so there's a lot of airport service infrastructure around. There is a huge field of fuel tanks, big box stores and highways. It's also very cut-off from the city proper. There's no way to get to downtown Boston without going through the harbor tunnel and dealing with the associated airport traffic.

If might be interesting if they could build some sort of bridge directly over the Chelsea River into Chelsea.

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Post by brewdad »

cat199 wrote: post #158
saosebastiao wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd be willing to bet that Miami is a favorite amongst at least a couple of people actually making the decision. Miami is the capitol of and gateway to Latin America, and Latin America has enormous potential for growth of ecommerce.

plus direct access to ports on the atlantic..

With the added bonus of it being completely underwater within 50 years!

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Post by larrydag »

arcanus wrote: post #115
larrydag wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in Dallas. - Currently has a large Amazon distribution center in the suburbs - Strong tech workforce and universities in the area. Other Tech companies in the area Dell(formerly EDS), ATT. Regional centers of Verizon, IBM, Microsoft, Alcatel/Lucent - Low property values and favorable tax structures. Plenty of areas to lease locations or to build in the suburbs or downtown. - International airport that is the hub…

> Google HQ2 is rumored to be looking at Dallas. Do you mean Apple? Dallas should be a very credible option, even if it might be #2 in Texas, behind Austin.

No Google. https://www.dallasnews.com/business/technology/2018/01/09/re...

Re: Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2

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Post by JauntTrooper »

dgritsko wrote: post #130
indescions_2018 wrote: post #75

Just visited Pittsburgh. There is indeed a renaissance happing in that town. The restaurant scene alone is phenomenal. And the addition of a FANG level HQ could cement its burgeoning international reputation as a destination. The idea is that CMU spits out about 200+ world class CS grads a year. If even 5% decide to stay in the area to start their own ventures. There would be potential for massive growth. the other d…

FANG = Facebook, Apple, Netflix, Google? (Just based on https://www.acronymfinder.com/FANG.html - I hadn't heard that one before)

Yes though A is Amazon. It’s been used by the investing media to describe their ezcellent stock performance in recent years. Sometimes it’s FAANG to include Apple.

Google kind of ruined it by rename the parent company Alphabet though!

Re: Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2

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Post by ghaff »

dx034 wrote: post #160
chollida1 wrote: post #3

Nice to see Toronto on the list, though game theory suggest that we're only here because having a Canadian Candidate has the potential to have all 3 levels of government involved rather than just state and city. I'm not really sure how to go about handicapping the finalists. Given the current political climate, Toronto is interesting because it's the only city that gives Amazon some escape form the US government. You…

Denver appears to be the current favourite (also chosen by the NYT as the winner) but doesn't have any flights to Asia except for Tokyo[1]. But I guess being sufficiently connected within the US is enough, not sure how many flights to China they need. [1] https://www.flightera.net/airport/Denver/KDEN

Denver has a huge airport and is a major United hub. It's just that most non-stop flights to Asia from the US leave from the West Coast (although this is less true than it used to be).
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