It would have been nice for the ATL to get it but the traffic issues around here have been out of control for years.

Makes you wonder why they strung 18 other cities along if Jeffie had already made up his mind.

Have they actually officially narrowed it down to two, or is this just someone's best guess?

Not seeing any real news reports about this.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Amazon's HQ2 location will be in one of these two cities

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Twenty cities made the shortlist to become Amazon’s second headquarters, or HQ2, but according to Scott Galloway they will pick either Washington or New York

Fake non news.

I don't know who Scott Galloway is, but being a stockholder I am pretty sure he is not Amazon's CEO.

Nothing is decided. Pundits gotta pundit, news sites gotta hype their headlines.

I truly hope Scott Galloway is correct. Anywhere other than Georgia is fine with me.
If they come to Georgia the taxpayers may never break even on the costs of the give-a-ways the politicians are offering.

Have to remember though, Galloway is not a spokesman for Amazon.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Have they actually officially narrowed it down to two, or is this just someone's best guess?

It's an opinion article - no facts.

As long as it’s not in my AO I could care less.

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Originally posted by italia:

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
Have they actually officially narrowed it down to two, or is this just someone's best guess?

It's an opinion article - no facts.

So then the thread title is extremely misleading.

NYC is a very expensive place to live. Northern New Jersey is a little better. They will need to pay their folks well who work there.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
So then the thread title is extremely misleading.

Possibly not on purpose - the OP may have mistook the opinion article for real news. Lots of speculators out there about Amazon's HQ2 location choice.
My speculation is based on the fact that businesses make decisions based on bottom line (money) factors. Some of those for this decision would include:
1) Tax and other financial incentives at inception (Property tax deferrals, jobs creation incentives).
2) Ongoing State tax structures (business taxes, State income taxes).
3) Ongoing labor costs (50,000 white collar jobs).
Who knows which state will pony up the biggest package for item #1. States with no State income tax offer advantages for item #2. Metro areas with lower labor costs have the advantage for item #3.
I still predict that Amazon will choose a location in a State with no State income tax. The article's opinion writer suggests the decision will be made based on the CEO's preference on where he wants to spend time. If Bezos wants to spend time somewhere, he'll just get in a private jet and go there. IMO, financial considerations will drive the Amazon HQ2 location decision.

Why would anyone base a distribution system (even a secondary one) out of NYC or DC?

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
Why would anyone base a distribution system (even a secondary one) out of NYC or DC?

The Amazon HQ2 is not a distribution center. It's a second corporate headquarters that will employ 50,000 white collar workers on a large campus of office buildings.
Amazon HQ2 Wiki

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Originally posted by italia:

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:
So then the thread title is extremely misleading.

Possibly not on purpose - the OP may have mistook the opinion article for real news. Lots of speculators out there about Amazon's HQ2 location choice.
My speculation is based on the fact that businesses make decisions based on bottom line (money) factors. Some of those for this decision would include:
1) Tax and other financial incentives at inception (Property tax deferrals, jobs creation incentives).
2) Ongoing State tax structures (business taxes, State income taxes).
3) Ongoing labor costs (50,000 white collar jobs).
Who knows which state will pony up the biggest package for item #1. States with no State income tax offer advantages for item #2. Metro areas with lower labor costs have the advantage for item #3.
I still predict that Amazon will choose a location in a State with no State income tax. The article's opinion writer suggests the decision will be made based on the CEO's preference on where he wants to spend time. If Bezos wants to spend time somewhere, he'll just get in a private jet and go there. IMO, financial considerations will drive the Amazon HQ2 location decision.

Ooops, didn't realize it was an opinion piece. I assumed the writer was reporting news.

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Originally posted by Skins2881:
Ooops, didn't realize it was an opinion piece. I assumed the writer was reporting news.

In this world of fake news, it's hard to know what's real.

I made the comment on another forum a couple weeks ago...

It was so close! New York came in right behind Fallujah and the moon.

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Originally posted by cas:
I made the comment on another forum a couple weeks ago...

It was so close! New York came in right behind Fallujah and the moon.

I don't think the moon is still in the running, but I predict the first commercial entity on Mars will be owned by Amazon, not SpaceX/Tesla.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
It will be somewhere in the DC Metro.
Why? Not warehouses or any of that... but proximity to power.

Did Amazon Employees Unwittingly Reveal The Location Of HQ2?

Did Amazon employees, ensconced in their luxurious Seattle headquarters, just tip the company's hand and unwittingly reveal the location of the second Amazon headquarters?

Speculation is intensifying after Arlington Now, which covers the Arlington area, noted a curious development on its website: An article from December entitled "County Wins Top Environmental Award from U.S. Green Building Council," suddenly rocketed back to become one of the site's most-viewed articles of the past week.

Here’s an excerpt:

Arlington County is the first community in the country to win a top award for its environmentally-friendly policies from the U.S. Green Building Council.

The county was named a Platinum level community by USGBC under its new LEED for Communities program.

USGBC said the certification recognizes the county’s creation of a “sustainable and resilient urban environment that has long-proven success in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, managing stormwater, ensuring economic prosperity and focusing on education, affordable housing, health and safety for residents and businesses.”

Such an extremely uncommon development warranted further examination from the site's producers, who sought to uncover where all of this traffic was coming from...

Arlington

What they discovered shocked them to the core: The bulk of the traffic was traced to an internal Amazon.com page devoted to the company's HQ2 search. Washington DC (Arlington is within the DC metro area) is one of 20 "finalists" in Amazon's wide-ranging search for the location of its second headquarters. It's been reported that the second headquarters will be a full equal to the company's original HQ in Seattle.

AMZN

Of course, this says nothing definitive about whether Arlington - or the broader DC Metro Area - will play host to the new HQ.

But it's definitely worth noting. It's also worth pointing out that researchers at Hamilton Place Strategies, an analytic PR consultancy, crunched the numbers and, in a study published Tuesday, tabulated that Washington, D.C. would be the most likely city to land Amazon’s massive second headquarters.

As ArlNow points out, an NYU professor who has written about the company opined last week that New York City and the D.C. area are among the most likely locations for Amazon's HQ2: This is due to a combination of being destinations for talented workers and being places that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos likes to frequent.

Being in DC would also allow Bezos to be as close as possible to the company's lobbyists - which could come in handy as the company seeks to realize its ambitions of becoming the "everything" store...

So, what do you think? Is this accident an important clue? Or is it essentially meaningless?

Amazon unveiled its list of 20 finalists last month. They include:

Atlanta, GA
Austin, TX
Boston, MA
Chicago, IL
Columbus, OH
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
Indianapolis, IN
Los Angeles, CA
Miami, FL
Montgomery County, MD
Nashville, TN
Newark, NJ
New York City, NY
Northern Virginia, VA
Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh, PA
Raleigh, NC
Toronto, ON
Washington D.C.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news...-reveal-location-hq2

Arlington would be terrible for me. I'd get all the influx of traffic and liberals and no bump in my home value. Pick NY please.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
Did Amazon Employees Unwittingly Reveal The Location Of HQ2?

No, they didn't reveal it. Amazon are still conducting site visits of potential sites within each of the 20 cities.