Posted on 10/20/2017 11:17:56 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
SEATTLE — Amazon.com has driven an economic boom in Seattle, bestowing more than 40,000 jobs upon a city known for Starbucks coffee and Seahawks fandom. Its growth remade a neglected industrial swath north of downtown into a hub of young workers and fixed the region, along with Microsoft before it, as a premier locale for the Internet economy outside Silicon Valley.
Seattle is the fastest-growing big city in the United States, a company town with construction cranes busily erecting new apartments for newly arriving tech workers. Google and Facebook have joined Amazon in putting large offices here.
When Amazon made a surprise announcement last month that it planned to open a second headquarters with even more jobs, it set off an unprecedented race among cities to lure the tech giant their way. Amazon said it will need 8 million square feet in a second region, making it the biggest economic development target in decades, experts say.
But as Seattleites will say, keeping up with the Internet juggernaut has not always been easy, providing a word of caution for officials from other cities willing to pursue the company at great expense....
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Don’t forget the traffic.
It is estimated that 66% of the current Dallas/Ft Worth area population is not from Texas. The North Texas Council of Goverments has been pushing for many years for companies to relocate to the area. They bring in their own employees with increase in pay to transfer. Their previous pay was inline with the cost of living for where they were. The higher wage allowed for more home size than what they had. The real
estate agents and home builders figured this and built mega homes for the incoming people. Texans only got the service work out of this deal. The big question is where is the water going to come from when we go back to our natural drought cycle.
Set up second headquarters. Move/relocate staff. Claim it is your official headquarters. Dramatically reduce taxes.
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