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Atlanta boosters showing why they should be chosen as well as Chicago and Austin boosters. Cost of living discussions, political discussions, discussions revolving around airports and transit. ALL insignificant, apparently,
I don't think it was insignificant, at all. All of those cities are now attracting other companies. Just because they didn't happen to get Amazon doesn't mean they didn't benefit.
I find it really impressive that both CC and LIC were chosen considering neither were the top incentive cities. They offered well below what Atlanta, MD, Newark and Philly offered I believe. Atlanta even offered a private car on the Marta, and a private lounge at the airport with free parking along with an entire academy in partnership with the GA university system to create Amazon Georgia Academy. Changing the neighborhood name in Crystal City to National Landing as an initiative doesn't sound so bad afterall.
Atlanta's offer wasn't anywhere near the highest so I'm not sure why you keep singling it out.
First time I mentioned it. But relevant to his comment hinting that NYC's 1.5 billion cinched it for NYC. It wasn't just money. Dc's bid was under 600 million apparently.
Amazon's search for a second headquarters was never just about finding a new home.
Throughout the process, Amazon skillfully obtained data from 238 cities and metro areas in North America for free, including proprietary information about real estate sites under development, details about their talent pool, local labor cost and what incentives cities and states were willing to cough up to bring the company to town.
"Amazon was not going through this exercise to pick a single HQ2," said Richard Florida, a leading urbanist and professor at the University of Toronto. "It was part of a broader effort -- a corporate relocation strategy -- to crowdsource a wide variety of data."
"At the heart of this is talent," said UVA's Lenox. "Having a better understanding of where talent may reside across the US is valuable to them. It may help with future recruiting." Data could also give Amazon an advantage in future negotiations with communities, especially if they know what incentives are available.
Because these posters have a narrative, and they are annoyingly sticking to it.
I wonder why no other city is getting as much backlash? Perhaps bc no other city boasted as much? There is a cause to the ruckus... all you gotto do is grab some popcorn and read the beginnings of this thread and the HQ2 thread in the Atlanta subforum for a good time.
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