Amazon narrows the list of metro areas for its new headquarters to 20

[hashmander]

if trump and bezos weren't enemies he would be the perfect host for this pageant.

 

[DirtyD]

Amazon is a company worth $678 billion whose CEO is the richest man in the history of the world. Oddly, it is also the perpetrator of one of the biggest welfare scams America has ever seen. It’s even worse than you think!

Amazon’s grotesque national spectacle of goading our nation’s cities into trying to outbid one another for the company’s second headquarters is going exactly as planned. Nearly 250 cities submitted their pathetically grasping bids; that list has already been cut to 20 finalists, and, of course, only one city will “win” the right to make jaw-dropping handouts to Amazon out of the public till. (The city chosen will be a major city with an already healthy economy, rendering the begging debasements of all the second-tier cities all the more embarrassing.)



An interesting side benefit for Amazon—in addition to the huge sums of money it will receive in tax breaks—is that, as the New York Times notes today, the company now has an encyclopedic analysis of every city where it might ever want to locate any type of facility in the future, including the most valuable information of all: what sort of ransom the city is willing to pay to a company like Amazon. All of these “losing” cities can take as a consolation prize the knowledge that if Amazon wants to build, say, a warehouse there down the road, they will expect to receive at least a scaled-down version of the perks that the city already offered. In this rigged game, the cities of America have already laid all their cards on the table for Amazon to peruse at its leisure.

https://splinternews.com/make-this-amazon-charade-illegal-1822511600

 

[AVXL]

Haven't seen Dallas' proposal, but Atlanta offering an 345 acres for a city that can be called "Amazon" is pretty fukkn amazing.

I think it's Atlanta, Raleigh, or Montgomery County.

That proposal actually came from the newly founded city of StoneCrest, which submitted its own proposal that was denied.

I'm probably one of the only Atlantans on the Coli in favor of getting Amazon. If it comes to Atlanta it could dramatically improve downtown (which is where they would come, near MBS & Philips Arena in an area known as The Gulch), improve infrastructure, transportation and above all else create jobs. I think there are some issues that need to be addressed with a company like Amazon potentially coming to the city but I still think the positives outweigh the negatives

 

[Killah Ray]

That proposal actually came from the newly founded city of StoneCrest, which submitted its own proposal that was denied.

I'm probably one of the only Atlantans on the Coli in favor of getting Amazon. If it comes to Atlanta it could dramatically improve downtown (which is where they would come, near MBS & Philips Arena in an area known as The Gulch), improve infrastructure, transportation and above all else create jobs. I think there are some issues that need to be addressed with a company like Amazon potentially coming to the city but I still think the positives outweigh the negatives

I can’t even imagine how worse traffic would be that way...shyt already gets like a parking lot as it is...

 

[AVXL]

I can’t even imagine how worse traffic would be that way...shyt already gets like a parking lot as it is...

As part of the cities/states $5 billion dollar proposal will be money earmarked for investments in transportation including light rail, highway construction, etc. Atlanta does have significant traffic concerns, but the level of investment that the state would put into place could dramatically improve the traffic mess that we deal with down here. That level of investment into traffic infrastructure isn't gonna happen without a company like Amazon coming here

 

[mastermind]

stop giving rich people/corporations public money

 

[BillBanneker]

I can’t even imagine how worse traffic would be that way...shyt already gets like a parking lot as it is...

And if Amazon doesn't like that local. Say they rather be in Buckhead?

I'm probably one of the only Atlantans on the Coli in favor of getting Amazon. If it comes to Atlanta it could dramatically improve downtown (which is where they would come, near MBS & Philips Arena in an area known as The Gulch), improve infrastructure, transportation and above all else create jobs.

Amazon with the finesse. I guess if you work in Real Estate maybe.

 

[Tigron]

I hope it doesn't get anywhere near Atlanta

 

[88m3]

BK Navy Yard set to launch $2.5B redevelopment plan

 

[Scoop]

I think it will either be Atlanta, Dallas, Austin or one of the DC metro options. It's difficult to know though without knowing the specific site each city proposed.

I am pulling for Miami though.

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

BK Navy Yard set to launch $2.5B redevelopment plan

And Bezos said the city selected has to have access to 24 hour transit system..

BK is the boro

 

[hashmander]

amazon employees would probably feel more comfortable in brooklyn. the richest man in the world wants a HQ in the big apple, status symbol.

proper public transit that risks black folks commuting to areas we aren't wanted means that will probably disqualify a southern city.

 

[OneManGang]

I just dont see ATL getting it. The major issue will be transportation to and from. Even if they do invest in transportation, which would probably see push back from a bunch of different areas, it would take time for that to happen. The interim would be a traffic/gridlock nightmare

 

[TRFG]

This shyt is crazy. Cities bending over backwards to hell the richest man in the world avoid taxes.

https://splinternews.com/make-this-amazon-charade-illegal-1822511600

And the US and EU loves to bully small countries that don't use income tax on it's citizens

 

[Robbie3000]

Amazon got these cities auditioning like it's American Idol or a Hollywood casting couch.