The Nation Courts Amazon for HQ2

[Buster Highmen]

I'm going with Bulltamooore....

Come to think of it, Bezos does sort of look like Jonathan Waters.

[GoldMember]

I believe you. After finding the Business Insider article, it's Moooooody's best guess based on the data analysis.

I find it more than a little disappointing that the endless news stories on HQ2 today have absolutely zero cow references.

Better?

[garyfromterrace]

As far as 50k people hypothetically moving here that's a drop in the bucket of how many flock, or stampede I mean, here annually anyway...

Did you say "stampede"... Yes, yes you did.

CAL-GA-RY, CAL-GA-RY!!

[frorider]

http://www.politico.com/magazine/sto...seattle-215725

. But tech firms have played another, more paradoxical role in the city’s growing skepticism for its tech elites. The young, educated army of knowledge workers who have flocked to Seattle since the 1990s have also helped alter Seattle’s political chemistry. Many are highly supportive of progressive causes, says Seattle pollster Ben Anderstone, and have tended to vote for Seattle’s ever more left-leaning politicians.

And it’s these politicians who are enacting the policies that so irk local business—including some of the same businesses that recruited these youthful voters in the first place. As Anderstone observes, there is often “a significant gulf in attitude toward politics, if not ideology, between tech company workers and tech company management.”

[The AD]

Atl has shitty mass transit and the traffic already sucks but does that really matter?

Atl is my guess as the winner.

Poor mass transit and shitty traffic? Amazon employees could transfer over from Seattle and feel right at home.

[FLS]

Terrabull joke.

Is that from the Cattle-log of bad puns?

[garyfromterrace]

Just setting up a little shop in preparation for the BIG announcement in 2018. They would love it here.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgar...gary-1.4373273

[summit]

New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C., Toronto, Raleigh, Columbus, Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Indianapolis, Miami, Montgomery County in Maryland, Nashville, Newark, Northern Virginia, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.

Amazon Short List - 20 Cities for HQ2 down from 238

[iceman]

Those dummies.

[GoldMember]

This exercise is a bit laugha-bull to me. Spokane submitted a proposal for the Amazon HQ2 even though we aren't remotely close to the criteria Amazon listed plus we're only 280 miles from the current World HQ1. For one thing, any company moving here in trying to hire 50 coders can't fulfill their needs let alone what Amazon requires. Not to mention open space for the facility near downtown, etc. It was a far reach for Spokane but served a separate purpose of at least getting our city in front of Amazon as a potential future fulfillment site or something lesser in activity than HQ2. With that said, our local Chamber/EDC organization spent a LOT of time and money to put the proposal together; time and money they really don't have a lot of.

Now in this morning's paper, it's announced that Apple may be following in Amazon's footsteps in building a second HQ and hiring 20k workers. Our fine city, along with the Spokane Tribe of Indians who also proposed on Amazon, is seriously contemplating going after Apple. This is stupid. We no more have a chance of landing Apple than we did Amazon or in landing a man on Mars from a launch at Spokane International Airport. Dream big, boys but you're wasting time and precious resources going after this kind of prize. Seriously, we have zero chance at this and I don't really think the community would want it,anyway. This is really a stupid endeavor.

[PNWbrit]

This exercise is a bit laugha-bull to me.

Sounds like Spokane's political leadership is laughable not the exercise itself?

[GoldMember]

Sounds like Spokane's political leadership is laughable not the exercise itself?

That point's not missed. There are a lot in leadership who have varying levels of the God complex. Wasting resources on outlandish exercises only makes them look dumb....maybe because they are. I just shake my head when I read things like that. Spokane's leadership isn't grounded in reality and therefore pursues goals that aren't achievable. Time and money wasted. Again.

[Marshall Tucker]

Oh thank god.

I heard we were gonna title him "king up in hear n'shit"

"The Atlanta suburb of Stonecrest has offered 345 acres of industrial land to create a new city called Amazon and to make Chief Executive Jeff Bezos its mayor for life."

[BCMtnHound]

Sometimes a fools errand is the best way to occupy fools. Wouldn't want them interfering with sensitive stuff

[::: :::]

3 DC area locations?
easy to lobby from there, I guess

New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago,

Washington D.C., Toronto, Raleigh, Columbus, Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Indianapolis, Miami, Montgomery County in Maryland, Nashville, Newark, Northern Virginia, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh.

[iceman]

They would get NIMBYed to death like they can't even imagine if they tried to come to Montgomery County. It's the local sport.

[Mazderati]

Also local to WaPo.

[Mazderati]

Philly could be lucrative. Purchase Camden for next to nothing and land right in between DC/Baldimore and NYC. Or Wilmington with the location and tax benefits.

[dunfree]

Bezos spent $23 million on a place in Kalorama back in 2016; chump change to him I'm sure, but interesting with 3 metro area locs in the finals.

picking Toronto would be funny.

[aragon]

picking Toronto would be funny.

How so?

[AK47bp]

I hope The Burgh gets it.

[PNWbrit]

Bezos spent $23 million on a place in Kalorama back in 2016; chump change to him I'm sure, but interesting with 3 metro area locs in the finals.

This is my belief.

picking Toronto would be funny.

Still a possibility to hedge against H-1B or US regulatory issues in the future though.

[Ted Striker]

I think Toronto is only in it for the potentially easier visa process.

edit: brit beat me to it.

[iceman]

This is my belief.

They've been building quite the distribution hub in Baltimore, which is only an hour away from DC. They currently have 3 facilities in the city including a brand-new one, and they have a crazy amount of room in Baltimore at Sparrow's Point (once the site of the biggest steel mill in the world, now 3,100 acres of fields) with direct train, highway and deep sea access and even room for a runway if desired. That led me to think they'd put the HQ in Baltimore but maybe DC's close enough.

If it does end up in the DC area I'd be amazed if it doesn't end up in Virginia.

[Benny Profane]

Baltimore makes a ton of sense. But watch the black misleadership class in that town fuck it up somehow.