Amazon trims field to 20

[micropolitan guy]

Amazon trims the field to 20 cities for its No. 2 headquarters. Let the second round of the corporate welfare race begin.

Toronto

Columbus, Ohio

Indianapolis, Ind.

Chicago

Denver

Nashville

Los Angeles

Dallas

Austin

Boston

New York City

Newark, N.J.

Pittsburgh

Philadelphia

Mongtomery County, Md.

Washington, D.C.

Raleigh, N.C.

Northern Virginia

Atlanta

Miami

 

[SpeedTchr]

Thank goodness my 'hood didn't make the quarterfinals. We don't need to be handing out any more cash to gajillionaires.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

My money's on Nashville. Proximity to Atlanta, Indy, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Memphis, good airport, highways galore, growing by leaps and bounds, and has an aura of coolness.

 

[Michael_ Gee]

I hope with all my might it doesn't come here. We've got no place to put it. Amazon is already going to build a secondary office in the Seaport District, the district that was under water in the nor'easter two weeks ago.

 

[Huggy]

My part of the Toronto 'burbs has unveiled an ambitious plan for Amazon should Toronto win out. Amazingly enough for this part of the greater Toronto area, it makes some sense to me, would completely revitalize an area of town most people either don't know exists or drive by to get somewhere else.

 

[YankeeFan]

Detroit and Gary, Indiana don't make the cut.

Most folks are still predicting Toronto or Washington, D.C.

 

[User 149557]

I was hoping they'd choose a city that needed it, although knew it was unlikely.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Detroit and Gary, Indiana don't make the cut.

Most folks are still predicting Toronto or Washington, D.C.

Northern Virginia looks good.

I wouldn't count out Newark either -- can be part of NYC and still expand in almost unlimited fashion.

 

[YankeeFan]

Northern Virginia looks good.

I wouldn't count out Newark either -- can be part of NYC and still expand in almost unlimited fashion.

Newark would be interesting. It actually has the infrastructure, and easy access to NYC and an international airport.

I think it'd be neat if it came to Chicago, but it would be fascinating to see them go to Newark.

 

[TyWebb]

Atlanta is still in the running, which means it will make the finals and take a convincing lead only to blow it to ,,, oh, I don't know ... Boston.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Atlanta is still in the running, which means it will make the finals and take a convincing lead only to blow it to ,,, oh, I don't know ... Boston.

Cobb County board members are now kicking the,selves for giving the Braves their stadium.

 

[TyWebb]

Cobb County board members are now kicking the,selves for giving the Braves their stadium.

For a lot of reasons.

 

[typefitter]

Minimum wage in Ontario just went up to $14, going up again to $15 next year. I hope that's not a factor, and the Canadian dollar might offset that, but I can see that it might be. Also don't know how Trump's bloviating about NAFTA might affect things. If I were Amazon, I probably wouldn't chance it.

 

[goalmouth]

Amazon has its Audible division in Newark, because the city's telecom infrastructure was designed to be a key US comms hub.

 

[YankeeFan]

Minimum wage in Ontario just went up to $14, going up again to $15 next year. I hope that's not a factor, and the Canadian dollar might offset that, but I can see that it might be. Also don't know how Trump's bloviating about NAFTA might affect things. If I were Amazon, I probably wouldn't chance it.

I wouldn't think that would be a factor in this decision. These are going to be white collar employees.

Obviously, there will be janitors and cafeteria workers -- who will work for a third party -- making lower wages, but I'd still imagine this would be a lesser concern.

 

[Dick Whitman]

I wouldn't think that would be a factor in this decision. These are going to be white collar employees.

Obviously, there will be janitors and cafeteria workers -- who will work for a third party -- making lower wages, but I'd still imagine this would be a lesser concern.

That’s why the idea of helping Gary was strange to me. The hypothetical workers weren’t going to be from Gary.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

I'm guessing DC area, given Loudoun County is where Amazon's server farm is located. AWS is the money maker for Amazon, not selling stuff to consumers.

 

[typefitter]

I wouldn't think that would be a factor in this decision. These are going to be white collar employees.

Obviously, there will be janitors and cafeteria workers -- who will work for a third party -- making lower wages, but I'd still imagine this would be a lesser concern.

Sorry, I thought this would include some giant shipping warehouse. 50,000 white-collar employees? Why on earth would they need that many?

Proviso: I don't understand anything about anything.

 

[Justin_Rice]

Northern Virginia looks good.

A great reason to keep my resume updated!

 

[garrow]

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