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One more angle I don't think has been mentioned in this thread is food, specifically the grocery wars Amazon entered by it's purchase of Whole Foods.
Again, this is, I believe, one more thing in Indy's favor.
Kroger killed Cincy's chances, and will likely kill Columbus's chances.
Meijer, a growing Midwest behemoth is a champion for the state of Michigan. Now even if you live outside of Meijers zone, trust me, it's on Amazon's radar.
Walmart is down in Arkansas. Well, Indiana has lost most of it's regional grocers and is being colonized by Ohio's Kroger's and Michigan's Meijers....
Amazon would have no problem building up it's grocery/WholeFoods operations from Indy.
Many. Many. Many corporation acquire other corporation to increase their portfolio, add new market share/volume, or break into evolving markets or market assets. In terms of Whole Foods it is, partially the Fresh Food logistics network, and its national presence. No Whole Foods is not in every city in the U.S, but it has a nationwide presence, which only a select few grocery stores can share, and therefore has a unique distribution network.
With that there should be zero rational given to locating a HQ based on its Grocery Presence. Do some research on Amazon Revenue, etc, research there emerging or new fixed markets, and many industries come into play. WF was more of a strategy game, than a food game.
Also I can give countless examples of one company acquiring another, Comcast of Philadelphia owns, NBC and Universal Studios, yet both companies have not had any major structural changes in terms of HQ influence, etc.
I'm not saying it's a determining factor but certainly one amongst many.
One of Austin's strong points is the Whole Foods hq.
My point was that if you made a triangle of Wal Mart, Meijer and Kogers headquarters, I believe Indy would be in that zone, meaning the zone of the most densely built up industry in terms of food growth/production/trucking/shipping/refrigeration/warehousing/logistics/distribution.
Indy not only has no state champion in the field, but it has neighbors thriving in that field.
Please provide the post where I said Indiana was liberal. I'll save you the trouble ... you can't.
How about you provide the post where I claimed Georgia was? You can't.
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It appears your go to argument is Pence. That's a weak hand to play because many of his pet agendas never became legislation. If Indiana is so much more conservative than Georgia then explain how Obama (the man conservatives love to hate) was able to carry that state but not Georgia? Btw, just the fact that Indy made the top 20 is an accomplishment. If a top 10 list comes out and Indy makes that cut I'll wager you'll have plenty to say. It might not mean much but I can count on you saying something.
Rest assured Indy won't be making any top ten list, if they even have one.
You're the one that turned nasty and dismissive in this thread. You need to face the fact that you live in a mid-tier Metro that you somehow think can play with the big boys. It can't, no matter which 'list' it ends up on.
So I think all contributors to this thread should recognize.
1) We all have a pride of place. Which is incredibly amazing and important.
2) America is comprised of hundreds of cities (big and small) and all offer opportunities and challenges moving forward
3) Cities in this nation are UBER important moving forward in the 21st century and competing on a global scale
4) We are all fighting over one company to come to our city, when what we really should be fighting for, are better policies from the U.S GOVT to increase the economic competitiveness of our urban cores and the infrastructure that supports them.
Greater Cincinnati lost its bid for Amazon's coveted second headquarters for one main reason — a lack of tech talent.
That's according to economic development officials who Monday told The Enquirer that they were part of a conference call last week in which Amazon officials offered a long-awaited post-mortem on the region's failed bid for the so-called Amazon HQ2.
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While the Cincinnati area has made strides in creating tech jobs, according to Amazon, the pool of computer programmers, software developers and other high-tech workers was simply too shallow to meet its demands.
"At the end of the day, their feedback was that talent was the most important factor out of everything they looked at,'' said Ed Loyd, a spokesman for REDI Cincinnati, which put together a regional bid for Amazon's HQ2 that included communities in Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky and Dayton, Ohio.
This is the second losing city I've read that got this feedback from Amazon (Baltimore was told the same thing a couple of weeks ago). It's either their go-to excuse or what they're really prioritizing.
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), can't he just get them to add Chi-town to the eastern time zone! 
