Posted on 07/04/2018 11:55:55 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
In Amazon’s remarkable second headquarters competition, talent is the name of the game. That’s why we want to find out which city in the running for Amazon HQ2 has the best chances of attracting people like our talented GeekWire readers.
One of Amazon’s chief considerations in picking a location for its second headquarters is the ability to attract and retain the valuable tech workers who power the e-commerce giant’s business. Tech companies compete fiercely for a relatively small pool of skilled talent and Amazon wants to place HQ2 in a city that will help it gain a recruiting edge.
Last September, Amazon surprised the world with the announcement of HQ2, a second headquarters, equal to its first in Seattle, that would be constructed in another North American city. When completed, the $5 billion facility is expected to house up to 50,000 workers. In January, Amazon winnowed the field down to 20 cities.
Amazon’s request for proposals states a preference for “locations with the potential to attract and retain strong technical talent.” That’s been a key consideration over the past few months as Amazon officials scouted each of the cities in the running. Amazon has reportedly finished visiting each of the 20 cities and plans to make its selection and announcement this year.
We know that many GeekWire readers are the creative and technical professionals Amazon hopes to attract so we want to hear from you. Which of the 20 cities in the running for HQ2 would you be most likely to move to? Complete the brief survey below and we’ll post the results on GeekWire later this week. If you’re having trouble with the poll, use this link.
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If i had to choose Denver {where i live now in the burbs). no cities in anti 2A states
Not in Toronto. That City is way too expensive. If they located the facility about 50 miles west of Toronto it would be more bearable, but employees would never afford housing within the Greater Toronto Metropolitan Area.
I just couldn’t choose to live in the cities listed.
They all suck. Nashville probably least but summers are bitch hot and humid and even it has been infested.
They will pick a city in a state that is not in
East or West Coast Snowflake territory. They are escaping the insanity of Seattle.
I’ll go out on a limb and say the lower Midwest, say Nashville.
Who cares?
You don’t think Dallas has a chance?
Denver has got a new airport with electric trains connecting to the downtown tourist area as well as to other parts of Metro Denver. Boulder has got aero space engineering as well as other high tech scientists. And there is plenty of land between the airport and Downtown. Highway C-470 is near the airport for transportation north south east and west. However, I have heard that Plano, Texas would be ideal for HQ2 and Peach Tree City southwest of Atlanta would be wonderful as well. Denverites do not want any more growth.
>>You don’t think Dallas has a chance?<<
Dallas has probably the best chance. 2 major airports, a very well known high-tech corridor and already a very large Amazon distribution center.
By Dallas I mean the metroplex. Dallas itself is boring as sin. But Frisco and some other areas like that would be great homes.
It will go to Dallas. Between tax breaks, transportation hub and a good employee base there is no reason not to go.
Preferably if it was on the list I would have put it in Detroit. But if they do that Michigan will be red for a generation.
It will be Texas.
Nashville infrastructure is already 15 years behind.
I wouldn’t live in a city.
That’ll double the value of my double-wide mobile home, much less all those site-built and modulars. They’ll probably up rental construction by 50%. Thank goodness I’m exempt from paying property taxes.
Toronto nice but too expensive.
Austin nice but too communist.
Dallas is in Tx so good on that but too big.
would not live in any of those cities, no thanks.
If you include Alliance Airport there are 3. I agree that somewhere in the metroplex might snag HQ2, but many of us here in Plano and Frisco are tired of growth for growth's sake. What used to be nice quiet suburbs are becoming very busy and congested.
Northern Virginia. Huge tech workforce, Amazon Web Services is already HQed here, and there are huge tracts of land near Dulles International that are just WAITING to start breaking ground. . .
Would you please stop wishing that curse on the great state of Texas?
We've got enough lib infiltration as it is already, and our economy doesn't need Amazon anyway. We're booming.
Not true. Plano is already too overpopulated, and the lib city council just voted to blow through that city's legal limits on population density.
If Amazon MUST come to Texas, there are many far less dense communities that would welcome the huge influx of people, traffic, burdens on infrastructure, and money.
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