Amazon Has Narrowed Its Listing of HQ2 Candidates to These 20 Websites

Amazon has whittled its listing of potential websites for its second headquarters from 238 bids throughout North America to only 20, the corporate introduced on Thursday morning.

The present nominees embody 19 metropolitan areas throughout america and only one in Canada:

• Indianapolis
• Chicago
• Denver
• Nashville
• Los Angeles
• Dallas
• Austin
• Boston
• New York Metropolis
• Pittsburgh
• Philadelphia
• Montgomery County, Ala.
• Columbus, Ohio
• Newark, N.J.
• Washington, D.C.
• Raleigh, N.C.
• Northern Virginia
• Atlanta
• Toronto

Dubbed “HQ2,” the tech big introduced final September that it could be seeking to assemble a model new, second headquarters someplace in North America, equal in measurement to its present base in Seattle. The applying course of closed up by October, and only recently it was suspected the e-commerce big might have dropped a clue with reported enlargement plans in Boston.

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has stated it plans to speculate over $5 billion in development and produce many as 50,000 high-paying jobs at HQ2, with the additional promise of “tens of hundreds of further jobs” in addition to billions of extra in further funding within the host city–prompting a flurry of (generally outlandish) bids from cities and states to woo CEO Jeff Bezos and firm. (Though not everybody was keen to roll out the crimson carpet to Amazon, with one metropolis even telling the corporate to not hassle contemplating it.)

A last determination is anticipated by the top of the yr. Between at times, Amazon stated it would work with every of the candidate areas so as to consider hiring plans, worker advantages, and the native communities.