Amazon HQ2

Probably won’t be in Cali. Maybe Texas… or NYC/Boston

I seriously doubt Fremont or SJ. Where would you put 50K employees + there’s extreme NIMBYism in the bay area. People are going to complain about even more traffic. Chicago isn’t business friendly. I think it’ll need to be a city with room to hold 50,000 in the actual city too. Bezos has adamant about keeping Amazon in Seattle. He thinks the energy of being in a city adds to the energy of the company. He won’t do a boring suburb campus.

My short list would be:

Austin (just bought WFM which is there)
Pittsburgh
Detroit
Columbus
Kansas City
Raleigh

They are all cheaper than Seattle. You can buy entire blocks of land for next to nothing in Detroit then get credit for revitalizing the whole city.

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I know, he would get a lot of heat for bringing even more jobs and wealth to an area rich in both. But, there is a rationale to doing that right? If you want the tech community nearby and the human resource quality that is second to none, the Bay Area is prime for Amazon HQ 2.0!!!

Come on, Jeff, you know you want to be right next to the Golden State Warriors in Mission Bay!!!

Wow, I might even buy in Bayview…:grinning:

If Bezos wants urban he can have all of Oakland. Uber is selling its Oakland building.

:joy: Few days ago, Tim Cook said Austin is great. Now Amazon :grin:

Austin has the tech guys, UoT and plenty of land for commercial development. Now have to figure out which part of Austin. The suburbs are quite far apart and hard to commute to each other, so if Amazon chooses SW or East Austin, I won’t benefit since my houses are all in NW Austin.

People complain about Seattle home prices. I seriously doubt the bay area would win. Home prices are even worse. I think there’s a zero percent chance it’s in a city where housing is equal to or greater than Seattle.

The other thing for Texas is no state income tax the same as Washington.

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I agree, the article says employees can choose to work from HQ2 if they choose to. I doubt people would be relocating to bay area.

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Agreed, somewhere like Texas would make sense. I wonder if Nevada will just throw everything but the apron kitchen sink (just like for Tesla).

Come on, the chicken wings are here, Jeff!!!

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“In a request for proposals from cities wooing the company, Amazon says it wants a site close to diverse housing options with access to mass transit and bike lanes. The request also says it wants its second headquarters to be within 30 miles of a population center and 45 minutes of an international airport.”

SFO is even closer than that, Jeff!!! And we got BART and Muni…oh, never mind. Did I mention we got bike lanes???

Jed making the case for Bay Area:

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Where in Bay Area? How about Oakland?

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It’s settled. Oakland is it!!!

It’d be sad to see Bezos settling for 2nd rate places like Austin…

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Honestly, just like Uber, the Golden State Warriors and me, we are leaving Oak Town. The vibe is gone…

Ok, Mayor Lee, time to make up for that lost Lucas museum. Moscone Center just expanded nicely for huge conventions too. Bring Amazon to Mission Bay!!!

Wow, a Sunset home is gonna be 3M soon!!!:grin:

C’mon! Uber leaving Oakland is because Uber self-destroyed. I am rooting for Oakland! See, Bezos can even have his own freaking stadium!

http://www2.oaklandnet.com/Government/o/PBN/OurOrganization/PlanningZoning/OAK040453

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Does Jeff like or hate Elon Musk? Fremont would be killer with both Tesla and Amazon presence…

Bunch of losers…

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Ok, time to formulate a game plan to win Amazon for the Fab 7x7…

Ok, his adopted daughter is from China… we got this!!!:slight_smile: