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I notice that Amazon listed several factors they would be looking at including: proximity to densely populated city centers, access to a strong labor force that could eventually fill 50,000 jobs and a strong quality of life.
Proximity to densely populated city centers and strong quality of life would rule out Atlanta.
Except Amazon included no metrics for what qualifies as dense or strong quality of life. There's something to be said for Atlanta making the list of finalists.
Ooh! This is a fun list. Top 10 expansion markets for San Francisco based tech firms. Once the Seattle market (and Phoenix) are removed that comes pretty close to the HQ2 list. Though Austin is the only representative for the South...
That's a very interesting list. CBRE tends to be good at this, though of course no brokerage knows everything.
It only counts offices, which is useful. But it could be narrowed to something more specific...development and high-end functions only. If you subtract the call centers and back offices, things might tilt further to the top of the list.
Meanwhile cities that rank lower with offices (especially the type I'm talking about) probably get more tech of the production variety that prefer cheaper cities.
Looks like Atlanta is requesting bids for its Gulch site. I suppose Amazon passed on that downtown location as well. I think I also heard that Starbucks is negotiating over Atlanta's Midtown site.
If Atlanta is intent on that site being purposed for Amazon it doesn’t make sense that they would turn that over to a developer now. It would make sense for them to have amazon moving in be contingent on purchase. Atlanta has transferred the right to include amazon from the city to a developer.
If Atlanta is intent on that site being purposed for Amazon it doesn’t make sense that they would turn that over to a developer now. It would make sense for them to have amazon moving in be contingent on purchase. Atlanta has transferred the right to include amazon from the city to a developer.
Actually, Amazon could very well have a developer build out their campus. Thus, the developer would be buying the land (not Amazon themselves).
BTW, my understanding is that Georgia's state law requires all bids for land to be an open process, even if they already have a particular developer in mind they want to sell the land to.
Last edited by citidata18; 07-03-2018 at 08:09 PM..
Looks like Atlanta is requesting bids for its Gulch site. I suppose Amazon passed on that downtown location as well. I think I also heard that Starbucks is negotiating over Atlanta's Midtown site.
Starbucks isn't negotiating for any site, they supposedly signed a LOI for a big chunk of space in MetLife's new Midtown development Midtown Union.
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