Posted on 09/08/2017 1:16:36 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Amazon is planning to build a second headquarters that could measure up to 8 million square feet — and create 50,000 jobs, many of which pay $100,000 or more.
The company is calling the second site "HQ2." It is asking cities to bid on the project, which is expected to cost $5 billion to build and operate. Amazon is prioritizing metropolitan areas with at least 1 million people.
“We expect HQ2 to be a full equal to our Seattle headquarters,” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said in a statement. “Amazon HQ2 will bring billions of dollars in up-front and ongoing investments, and tens of thousands of high-paying jobs. We’re excited to find a second home.”
The site it ultimately chooses will also need to meet a number of requirements, including a strong labor pool, being "business friendly," and it will have to be no farther than 45 minutes from an international airport.
Wherever Amazon chooses to build HQ2, the company is stressing that it will be a full-fledged headquarters and won't operate as a satellite office....
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Kansas City reportedly in the mix. Although I’d think they’d go a bit further east since the other’s in Seattle.
Boy I hope not. Our experience in Arizona is between the illegals and transplanted Californians (not the conservatives) Arizona has gone from safe red to purple,
It will be in the greater Kansas City area. You heard it here first.
I heard this too, around a month ago.
Let the bidding begin. Who can offer the biggest tax breaks?
Hey, world domination does not come cheap.
It'd be great if it happened. Amazon would have two states competing for it and trying to outdo each other on tax breaks. Win/win for Amazon.
So then where? Topeka? Wichita? The state line runs through the KC metro area. If it's in Johnson or Wyandotte counties then it's minutes from Missouri.
http://www.freep.com/story/news/2017/05/25/new-census-data-show-detroits-population-decline-continues/341336001/
“”Only one city out of the top 25 has lost population since 2010 and that is Detroit,””
It would be nice to see some of these West coast liberals put their money where their mouth is and help to rebuild the USA and help out the minorities they pretend to care for.
Detroit best, but weather might slow down deliveries. Probably Dallas but Atlanta has huge international airport.
I think the KC metro is bigger than you think it is. The eastern border of Johnson County, KS meets the western border of Jackson County, MO. Most of Cerner, Garmin, and Sprint are outside the 435 loop yet people consider them inside the KC metro area. And the two states have been poaching businesses from each other for years.
Anyway, who knows, it may not happen.
That's true. Other sources have given Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Detroit as the possible sites.
I live in the middle of Lafayette County and I'm still considered part of the KC statistical metro area. And if you've been gone a while then you've missed all the fun with one side or the other attracting companies. Applebee's used to be in Overland Park, then Missouri enticed them to KC with a tax package so they moved to Ward Parkway, then Kansas sweetened the deal and they were going to move back to the Kansas side when Applebee's CEO said screw it, they were moving to California. But that fell through so I don't know where they will eventually wind up. And there are other examples. Both states promise to stop the poaching...if the other one stops first. Won't happen.
Nope
Weather works against it. That and the lousy democratic controlled government
The weather and democratic government work against it
Detroit has international flights, too.
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