If they are really going to build another 50k person campus, the biggest driver is the cost of land. They, like Apple are smart, and will have bought all their land via shell companies. They are only holding a competition for the tax incentives. Discuss.
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Doubtful. Land in most cities is cheap as fuck.
Not good cities. I doubt Amazon is doing to Detroit
Amazon already has an office in Detroit wtf are you talking about
I’ve got a place outside of Denver. Here’s hoping!
Notice that Seattle is now compromising after their announcement. HQ2 was just a ploy to make that happen
Northern Virginia and DC Metro is where they’ll have their 2nd HQ.
Nope. That area is fucked over by constant traffic, lacks land and is too pricy. It's also too east coast. Denver is likely because of time zones, but St Louis being central is more important. And cheap, full city services, world class airport and has plenty of land, including their brand new mega warehouse in Hazelwood. It'll be within 50 miles of STL I'd say.
If HQ2 is anything more than a ploy, then it would have to be Denver or Austin. They need a place that will attract talent for reasons other than cost of living.
Amazon is much smarter than apple
The biggest driver is not the cost of land. The availability and cost of the workforce is more important. I have no info other than what is public.
Right. But Amazon already know this. But if they were to just go out and say “We’re moving to Denver” they’d pay more for land and get no incentives.
No doubt that this could be the strategy. Long term, the incentives will have very little impact on success. Even if this is the strategy, there is a greater than 0 chance that some other location will present a compelling opportunity.
Of course you are right but I’d bet they have it picked pending unforeseen offers
Amazon is too racist to move to another city. What is the prototypical Indian Amazon VP going to do when he is told to move to Topeka? or Albuquerque? Or Mississippi. Or Batimore. How are they going to get people from China and India to go work in these areas?
By paying them? How the fuck do you think they came to Seattle in the first place. It’s not like this shit is Bora Bora...
Amazon employees are too soft to live in hardcore places with real race gangs. Can't live in Chicago or Miami and just cry discrimination and get whatever you want. There's already large minority populations in place and/or extreme redneck right wingers. How much is Amazon going to pay them to deal with that shit?
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They have a set of cities that they plan to expand aggressively in and are already purchasing land and expanding dev offices there. Which of those gets the "HQ2" title is TBD and doesn't really matter much.
It will matter..
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