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It’s likely Long Island City in Queens and Crystal City according to the NYT.
It might turn into one of those Oprah Winfrey Show episodes, with Jeff Bezos announcing and you get an Amazon HQ2 and you get an Amazon HQ2 and you get an Amazon HQ2 and.................
Just make Austin, your food/grocery/consumer HQ (Whole Foods is already HQ there) and have Crystal City your AWS/cloud/lobbying/everything gov't. related HQ.
Looks like NYC will get the consumer division HQ -- they'd be splitting a new office building with Macy's, and taking over a tower to be vacated by Citi back offices.
If these are truly the two winners, it obviously came down to: they need people, and space, and these two cities could deliver. (Or, as I wrote last September, "Amazon’s HQ2 RFP prioritizes site readiness and talent.")
It just so happens that NYC and DC were the #2 and #3 metros for the sheer number of tech employees (#1 is SF Bay). Each also had large existing buildings that could be snapped up, since they're the #1 and #3 largest metro office markets.
Futuristic Transformative Visionary Schemes didn't matter at all; it was strictly transactional.
Wow - as i said earlier today, I was super bearish on the super southern, texas, and rust belt options from the start. Chicago, ATL - lol no.
But when news broke that they were looking at two places, I really thought one would be put in Dallas (if it truly made the cut to be in the last 3).
LIC and CC? seriously? they aren't that far from each other via plane or acela. Very uninspiring choices to say the least.
Hell, even Newark would've been an more interesting pick than LIC in order to see the effects of regeneration. LIC is developing nicely and astoria is well on its way to gentrifying.
Well, Bezos could try to make everyone happy and just announce that everyone will get an HQ -> HQ2, HQ3, HQ4, HQ5 and so on.
DC and/or NYC seem like solid choices to me. I'm sure AMZN did their homework and picked what they believe works best for the company and their employees.
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