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If I recall some info I read Bethesda is one of the sites Montgomery County proposed. DC proposed the waterfront for sure and it looks like Nova had two proposals submitted.
Well, that rather changes the perspective of things. Many today (myself included) thought that the three separately listed DC metro candidates implied that it had an edge in the game. But maybe not.
I guess it all depends, because NOVA, itself, could have 3, 4 or 5 separate proposals, same with Montgomery County, MD. I know many of the remaining cities have multiple locations within their metro area in their proposals. I think Raleigh had 7 different locations and Philly had 3 locations in their separate proposals.
So in theory, with these 20 short list places, there could be 30 or 40 or even 50 different total locations in play within the 20 short list places still left.
I find it a little bit perplexing that an e-commerce and tech company, especially one that seeks more talent and resources, excluded the global capital of the technology industry, the San Francisco Bay Area.
Not a single San Francisco Bay Area city or outpost made the cut on to their short list (a list that isn't really all that short to begin with, considering 20 places made the cut). While the San Francisco Bay Area has the highest cost of living in the United States, almost across the board, "cost of living" didn't seem to be a problem for Amazon when they put the likes of Boston, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington D.C. on their shortlist. So then why would it be a problem with the San Francisco Bay Area?
I don't have any personal leanings for HQ2, I thought Boston would get it initially and now don't much care so long as this selection process doesn't drag out for the duration of the year (that seems quite unfair to participants). However, if I were a Silicon Valley/San Francisco Bay Area supporter, I'd find it quite vexing that only one place made the cut for California and it isn't even the biggest tech player in that state and that place being Los Angeles, not the San Francisco Bay Area (the true epicenter of the global tech industry).
Questionable move by Amazon. If you want to be captain of industry, you'd think they would go to their industry's epicenter or at least, at the bare minimum, consider it among their top options. The San Francisco Bay Area is the 5th largest PCSA in the United States and is the largest population center snubbed from Amazon HQ2's "shortlist" of 20.
It's obviously DC. That list basically has it's name written all over.
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