Salt Lake is a on a major transportation corridor, and has more than a few Universities.
Denver? Maybe not.
Kansas City. Maybe, lots of transportation links.
Spokane? Labor issues would be likely.
Be fun to see who ‘wins’ the lottery - and the massive increases to the public not involved in this business.
Because I’ll guarantee that the one real thing Amazon is looking for is *tax breaks* - big, honking, multi-year tax breaks.
“Denver? Maybe not.”
Denver, (actually all of Colorado), essentially has only two highways that actually go anywhere: north-south I-25 and east-west I-70. Both are parking lots in the Denver metro area during rush hour. (Denver too has succumbed to spending its transportation money on riderless light rail and Lexus Lanes. The regular people simply eat cake during rush hour.)
Google has already done in the remaining livability remnants of Boulder, driving housing prices and rents to insane levels in a town that long ago surrounded itself with taxpayer financed “open space”, and has no ability to add housing units except by growing vertically, but with zero motor vehicle transportation improvements - actually negative growth given that Boulder has been hell-bent on converting its very few four lane roads that go anywhere into two lane roads with bicycle lanes given over to the former auto lanes. What Boulder is doing is actually kinda cool, deliberately converting itself in to a leftist hell on earth in terms of livability.
I pray amazon doesn’t come to Colorado and do to the entire Denver metro area as a whole what Google did to Boulder.