Texas Seems Primed to Land Amazon’s Second Headquarters: But the Competition is Tough

Texas Monthly ^ | 09/15/2017 | by LEIF REIGSTAD

[I got the rope]

Any place else will tax them out of existence.

[JBW1949]

“...Also, Texas has way better barbecue than Boston...”

North Carolina is also bidding...
NOW, you’re really talkin’ BBQ!!!!!

[WASCWatch]

North of Dallas would be best in Texas. Lots of land, close to DFW access to light rail and lots of good schools.

[dragnet2]

Watch what you ask for Texas.

[llevrok]

Any place else will tax them out of existence.

The buzz in Seattle is that Amazon (who employs 40,000 there in HQ1) is looking elsewhere because they are upset at the poor business climate and far left social agenda of the silly council. They recently passed an unconstitutional (state const) personal income tax on the rich and $15 min wage for example.

Their radical far left council members are blaming the exploding homeless crisis on Amazon (by name) whose employees are bidding up real estate. They make no mention of the increased tax revenues from flop houses turned into higher property tax condos etc. The city streets look like a Boy Scout Jamboree - tents everywhere!

[llevrok]

Kansas City? But back to the topic... ;-)

[Mears]

“Also, Texas has way better barbecue than Boston.”

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True,but I also read that Boston just doesn’t have the land available for a very large facility.

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[vooch]

LOL

Texas ain’t even close.

All cities in texas are seething cesspools of suburban traffic jams.

I like Texans, but their cities are built like Chinamen and Arabs build cities

[Biggirl]

But the TX business environment is very friendly.

[BlueLancer]

Also, Texas has way better barbecue than Boston.

Don Diego Vega: If I give away my land, where are we going to live?

Charlotte Taylor Wilson: Boston! After all, it's the only civilized place to live.

Don Deigo: Boston!? I spent a week in Boston and I didn't hear a decent mariachi band the whole time ...

[morphing libertarian]

Texas has way better barbecue than Boston.

But Boston has the beans.

[Surrounded_too]

They could probably build a new city between D-FW and Austin

around Amazon with modern street patterns avoiding congestion

and better burbs. Sonics left, baseball left once, already.

Goodbye Seattle

[vooch]

biggril,

good point on business friendly. Texas is a leader and thank the good lord for that

Counterpoint; If Amazon wanted a real business friendly environment it would move to Singapore or Dubai or even Luxembourg

[CJ Wolf]

Loudoun County. That is where they will go.

[Deplorable American1776]

Connecticut wants them, too, but they couldn't​ keep GE or Aetna in the state.

[Veto!]

I stopped buying at AMZ even though I was one of their first customers back in the 90s and already paid for Prime this year. Sick and tired of watching local businesses going down, plus AMZ’s customer service is not what it once was. Plus, they treat their employees like **** !!!!

[Wuli]

If I was governor of Texas I’d say NO.

Bezos just wants to move a bunch of Leftists into Texas.

[t4texas]

Whatever . . . and then there’s CHILI!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NOcDPs3P40

[DAC21]

Houston has no chance. One criteria not mentioned but high on the list is limited impact from natural disasters. I suspect Amazon probably wants to get closer to the east coast anyway.