Trust me Im fromthe area, they have won some of them.
I'm expecting this to go to the southeast though.
Which east coast cities both have a large talent base and are the ripest for extreme gentrification?
Maybe...Durham NC?
Though I could definitely see Bezos even more thoroughly gentrifying Boston.
Toronto would have to be willing to play the tax break/free real-estate game. It looks like from the Washington Post article that Amazon is basically saying for cities to bid for the most free shit. That is why I don't see large cities like NYC or Toronto getting this. The smaller cities with the most to gain are the ones who are going to pony up the most.
Who was the last big player we attracted?
I know CT got a lot of the hedge funds but that was rather since the fatcats lived in CT anyway lol. No more commute to the city!
It's not even cities that bid, its state government.
Is a second HQ really advantageous?
Toronto would have to be willing to play the tax break/free real-estate game. It looks like from the Washington Post article that Amazon is basically saying for cities to bid for the most free shit. That is why I don't see large cities like NYC or Toronto getting this. The smaller cities with the most to gain are the ones who are going to pony up the most.
amazon felt the tweet.
They should put it on the East Coast. Put it in Florida.
My bet is on Texas. Austin or Dallas specifically
Not so much attracted, but retained.
Toronto has been named the fastest growing tech market in North America by the CBREs 2017 North American Scoring Tech Talent report. The city even beat out the technology hotbeds of San Francisco and New York City combined, shooting up from 12th to sixth in an overall annual ranking. From 2015 to 2016, Toronto added 22,500 new technology jobs, compared to 5,370 for New York and 11,540 for San Francisco. Toronto also ranked as the second-cheapest market with high quality talent for a technology firm to operate. When you consider the costs of hiring talent and finding real estate, it costs about $26 million (all figures USD) to run a 500 person technology company in Toronto, well below the lowest US citys cost for the same thing, $34 million in Oklahoma City.
Des Moines is one of the best places for young professionals. Be a perfect fit.
Considering they bought Whole Foods and the pool of quickly growing software developers regionally, I'd say Austin makes a good fit.
Canada loves Amazon.
Atlanta would be a good spot for their content creation teams. Plus a nice big airport nearby. Do it Amazon, do it.
Pittsburgh would make sense with Carnegie melon there for the comp sci stuff.
we all know its going to be detroit.
Super biased, but Toronto is a big contender. We have some of the best software talent in the world coming out of our universities, and all 3 levels of government are doing a big tech push. Our AI game is on point too.
Also, Toronto is the largest growing tech city in North America.
https://techvibes.com/2017/07/20/toronto-is-the-fastest-growing-tech-market-in-north-america
50,000 tech jobs in NC might be all it takes to turn this state blue.
Bezos, do what must be done.
Im gonna go with northern virginia. Their primary aws datacenter is in my backyard, and we are already a pseudo east coast silicon valley. They have a full lease on the old booz allen building and the tech talent here rivals the valley (IMO)
Considering they bought Whole Foods and the pool of quickly growing software developers regionally, I'd say Austin makes a good fit.
And this. Texas basically pays companies to build or move HQs to Texas.
Yeah I was thinking this too. It'd provide a good alternative to all the defense/govt tech jobs around here. Though personally I'd rather see it go to a city that really needs it, like Detroit.
Put it in bum fuck America. Revitalize a dying town and bring jobs somewhere that needs it. People will move there.
I absolutely can't see a HQ this size functioning in Austin as it stands today, the infrastructure just isn't there to support the size and employees. I do think it'll be Texas though, just not Austin.
I absolutely can't see a HQ this size functioning in Austin as it stands today, the infrastructure just isn't there to support the size and employees. I do think it'll be Texas though, just not Austin.
It added that the location does not need to in an urban or downtown location, or a development-prepped site.