I’m betting on Texas on this one.
My city (San Antonio) was in the mix for Amazon Part Two. But backed away. Knowing it’ll probably go to Dallas.
But hey. If the next Amazon Part Two is ANYTHING like Seattle - then forget it.
It wouldn’t be worth it.
Yeesh!
Texas will probably get this.
but the mystery remains...just what useful, productive, profitable work could 50,000 new office clerk types perform to make hiring them all of a sudden worthwhile?
and...especially since the company refers to the entire scheme as redundant to its existing bloated HQ
there is something else going on here, other than just duplicating a big HQ operation... what successful corporation has duplicate Headquarters of this size, anyway? what if clerk 12,657 in Seattle says YES and clerk 47, 974 in Dallas, say, says NO?
instead of making Amazon more profitable, it will drain Amazons financial resources and screw up Amazon’s daily operations big=time
so....Bezos not being THAT stupid, just what (else) is he up to with this very stange proposal? Just what will his new 50,000 paperpushers actaully DO?
And low rent housing would become more expensive.
Seattle’s problem is the serious geographic/geologic limitations. There’s a whole lotta people trying to jam into very little usable space, narrowly distributed along peninsulas.
TX & GA have, on the whole, no such limitations. Atlanta sprawls, rather comfortably. As downtown has filled up, high-tech has moved up “the 400” to more spacious areas yet still can travel quickly without too much trouble. Major arteries can be slow, but plenty of roads spread between with no physical limitations of ocean or mountains.
My guess is that, given Amazon's liberal bent, that you could be highly qualified, but if you were a white, middle class, Christian, you would have no chance at being one of the 50,000.
Well, for one thing the real estate market goes bananas.
for example this place is a shack (but down the road from Microsoft):https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/34111-SE-43rd-St-Fall-City-WA-98024/49004794_zpid/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=emo-propalert-button&rtoken=d27c5d62-3794-415b-bc56-7948cdbcecbc~X1-ZUx3u8qn86mqdl_8gte6
Adding 40,000 flaming liberals to your work force...
What could go wrong?
They could have set up shop near Buffalo, NY for half the cost, and everyone would have been able to buy a 4 bedroom house on an acre of land for less than $200K and a 20 minute commute.
Traffic sucked in Seattle when I left there six years ago. I just visited a couple months ago. It’s a nightmare now. It’s gotten significantly worse.
two headquarters means amazon can play one against the other.
Huge distribution centers like to be located centrally. Almost all Fed ex packages are flown to Tennessee first, sorted then flown to their respective destinations.
Seattle seems like a horrible for a package distributer. I wonder if they’re going to close it or drastically decrease the size x number of years after the new center is up and running?
Please, not Texas - try Baltimore!
A strong proposal is combined with Long Beach plus Huntington Beach California.
Large, qualified workforce, access to all transport with multiple seaports, multiple airports, trains, freeways, etc.
Obvious downside includes high taxes.
Seattle and the surrounding area is a mess. Prices for everything are through the roof especially housing, and once nice country roads are traffic jams - you want this?
It doesn’t necessarily need to be a city. It needs to be a place where land is cheap, taxes and crime are low, and there is good transportation.
Lots of businesses moved out of NYC to office parks in New Jersey, off of I-287. Other businesses left Philadelphia to go to the King of Prussia area, which is at the nexus of I-76, I-276, and I-476, and a quick ride to the airport, and NOT subject to Philadelphia taxes and demographics.
I’m hoping it goes to a solid blue state, do not wish to see all the lefty employees and their families turn a red state.
Describe the 50,000 workers.
It would depend...are the 40,000 people going to be Muslim refugees? Then, no.