Amazon HQ? (Philadelphia, Chester, King of Prussia: universities, pros and cons, live in)

[1ondoner]

Or buy, before house prices skyrocket

Originally Posted by Hannah5555

I better move SOON, before the rents get even higher

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by 1ondoner

It looks like Philly will also put in a bid

Philadelphia To Make Pitch To Be Amazon’s Second Home « CBS Philly


Pittsburgh too and coming from no less than the mayor.

Pittsburgh ready to make a push to bring home new Amazon headquarters | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Both of PA's premier cities have do this. It would be a huge win for PA.

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by 1ondoner

Or buy, before house prices skyrocket

Thanks. I was just going to say that.

[southbound_295]

Originally Posted by kyb01

Nutter is awol. Does anyone even know what he's doing?

The people needed to push this are Rendell(although I am personally sick of him), David Cohen, John Fry, Amy Gutmann, Judith Rodin, the Roberts( Brian and Ralph), Dick Haynes( Urban Outfitters),Brandywine Realty who are behind Schuykill Yards and the 30th Station Plan, PREIT, Liberty Prop Trust, UC Science Center and both of our US Senators.

Ban all city council people except Allan Domb.

Unfortunately our goof ball mayor can't be left off the list and neither can our blah governor.

Hey, better your mayor than the mayor in Charlotte. People of all political persuasions hopes that she's defeated. Sic Rendell on Amazon & he'll get the deal done.

[kyb01]

I may be among the few here who remembers when Amazon started in the 90s. They originally used Digital Equip. Corp's Alpha servers and an early search tech engine called Altavista. I used both at my job.

I still have one of their original gift t-shirts from around that time.

[timeEd32]

The population and the location of the airport are huge negatives against Pittsburgh, otherwise it's an interesting option.

[thedirtypirate]

Why Amazon Should Pick Philadelphia - Forbes

What’s important to know about Philadelphia is that it is booming over the last few years. Employment in the city was flat for almost a decade, but since 2013 it has been booming and over the last few quarters has outpaced the U.S. overall. Philadelphia has momentum, and if you look at the past 10 years of data like the NYT did you’ll miss this.
The momentum in Philadelphia is not just limited to the job market, but is if anything more stark in building. As of July, there were 30 high rise buildings under construction. In the center city core alone, there was 4.4 million square feet of commercial and mixed use construction either completed or under construction in 2016. This is on top of another 9 million of residential/mixed use. And all of this is in the dense core of the city, where for many other big cities that have been booming for longer there is less room to grow.

Your city will lose the contest for Amazon’s new HQ.

And then on the East Coast are a pair of dark-horse candidates: Baltimore and Philadelphia. Baltimore has stellar cultural institutions, proximity to Washington without the housing costs, acres of open land, and a city government ready to play ball with big developers. Philadelphia has the same assets with a better regional transit system and easy access to New York.
The problem for the shrinking cities—Philly, Chicago, and Baltimore—may be political. As I’ve written before, the problem for those cities is not that housing is too expensive but that people don’t make enough money. Those cities tried everything to get companies to stay in the ’50s and ‘60s. But that doesn't mean that low-income tenants today won’t see a corporate giveaway as an unethical use of resources. (Which, fundamentally, it is.)

In spite of it all, Baltimore, Chicago, Denver, and Philly are probably the most compelling choices for Amazon. But that doesn’t mean the company might not blow off its interest in higher education or mass transit to procure a low-cost campus in the suburbs of Dallas or Atlanta.

[Pine to Vine]

Curb's thoughts on where Amazon might set up shop in Philly: https://philly.curbed.com/maps/amazo...phia-locations

[kyb01]

Originally Posted by thedirtypirate

Why Amazon Should Pick Philadelphia - Forbes




Your city will lose the contest for Amazon’s new HQ.

Hopefully someone told the author of the Slate article that Philly has made modest population gains.

[Pilot1]

I wonder if Amazon is considering a suburban location, outside of a large city? If so, there is the property Vanguard was going to move to (from Malvern) before the economic meltdown in the greater Exton area, Chester County, right off the Downingtown PA TPK interchange.