Cities make last-ditch effort for Amazon's second headquarters

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New Yorkers may assume that the Empire State Building lit up in orange on Wednesday night is an early Halloween treat.

But New York City is the latest city vying for the attention of tech giant Amazon.


The deadline to submit a proposal for Amazon's second headquarters is rapidly approaching, and cities are making last-minute efforts to stand out. Amazon (AMZN, Tech30) has sent cities into a frenzy since announcing plans to open another headquarters in North America.

Dubbed HQ2, the new facility will cost at least $5 billion to construct and operate, and will create as many as 50,000 jobs. The deadline to submit a proposal is Thursday. It's unclear how many cities have submitted proposals so far. Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Cities have made splashy and creative efforts to grab the company's attention. For example, Tuscon, Arizona sent a giant cactus to CEO Jeff Bezos and Stonecrest, Georgia offered to de-annex land and rename it the city of Amazon.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/18/technology/amazon-second-headquarters-proposal-deadline/index.html


Here is the video trying to get Amazon to move to DFW- Why not we can always use more traffic

And besides- TACOS! LOL

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1. I'm glad Denver didn't offer financial incentives. Their employees would appreciate CO lifestyle...

and that is undoubtedly the best selling point. I'm not so sure I want to see yet more traffic, scarce housing and all the growing pains that come with too much too soon--even though Denver would ultimately be able to accommodate.

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2. My guess is that DC & Boston are the leading contenders with Charlotte & Columbus as longshots.

The winning city needs to be able to supply the company's workforce needs both now and in the future so smaller cities are going to have a difficult time finding and housing workers. Real estate prices in the winning city are going to soar which may price out countless existing or future homeowners. Then there are all sorts of infrastructure costs tied to such a massive company and number of new people. A mid-size city like Des Moines with a metro population of 600,000+ people could not handle the sheer size or costs of the transformation this event could create.