Posted on 08/05/2018 3:05:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
If Amazon selects Dallas for its second headquarters, it will be adding to the region’s already rich retail DNA.
While Dallas-Fort Worth is known for its business diversity, retailing represents a big slice — maybe one it’s not getting much credit for in the ongoing speculation about where the largest online retailer will decide to put its HQ2.
When analysts size up the 20 cities that Amazon said it would pick from this year, they have looked at where each stands in regards to affordable housing, tech talent, quality of life and other measures Amazon says it’s looking for.
That often leaves Dallas, the fourth largest U.S. metropolis which had the highest population increase of any U.S. metro area last year, an HQ2 underdog.
But those analyses may be undervaluing one unique asset that Dallas has: a history of bringing new ideas in retail to a broader public.
The HQ2 debate hardly notices that while Amazon is a technology company, it’s also a retail company — and one that has room to expand its customer base.
And Dallas is a place where whole new categories of retailing were started and/or refined to appeal to a mass market....
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
NOOOOOOOOO!!
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Dare I include the Dallas Cowboys on that list?
Dallas makes some sense for Amazon. Dallas is a Democrat city. They’ll get the business related benefits of being in a Red State for now.
By Dallas I think she means the whole metroplex.
They could use the old Texas School Book Depository.
So is Columbus, but all they get are warehouses and low-staff data centers from Amazon.
The only upside to Dallas is that it’s not Austin.
So is Columbus, but all they get are warehouses and low-staff data centers from Amazon.
The only upside to Dallas is that it’s not Austin.
Dear Amazon ... we’re all rednecks in Texas. Even the progressives are secret rednecks. It’s contagious. Don’t risk it.
NYC and NYS are refusing to make public any tax incentives being offered. Taxpayers ain’t happy.
DFW doesn't need Amazon, let them go someplace else.
Well, the business might be nice ... it’s more so-called “progressives” we don’t need.
Wasn’t long ago New York was running ads here in Texas promising sweetheart deals to move up there.
But Austin has a higher density of millennials, hipsters, and blues bars...
Rabies, scabies and the drip.
Build the HQ in Nuevo Laredo. They will get cheaper labor and still have some infrastructure for shipping.
No.
To many blue people in TX already.
And please note, I am not living in Texas.
Rarely have I seen so much whoring for a corporate HQ as for Amazon HQ2.
As long as it is not Denver I am good. We have way too many left coast leftist swine. Our demonrat candidate for governor has said indirectly through his commercials he wants to turn us into kkkalifornia.
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