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San Antonio leaders prepare to compete for Amazon’s $5 billion HQ2 campus
San Antonio has had a tough time attracting and retaining major corporations in the past, and that may be no different here, thanks to the city’s lack of direct flights.
AT&T moved its headquarters to Dallas in 2008 for that reason, said Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff.
He also said that was partly to blame on Toyota’s decision to put its North American headquarters in Plano rather than here, where it has a plant on the South Side.
“The shortcoming we have, and everyone knows about it, is the airport,” he said.
“That would be a very big challenge for us to overcome for a corporate headquarters that big.
Other than that, I think we would be in the ballgame.”
http://www.mysanantonio.com/business...n-12180410.php
oh well ...
Austin with its airport's superior selection of non-stop flights and much larger corporate/talent population would be a better location.
I expect SA couldn't give Amazon enough tax breaks, property, infrastructure (which almost never are paid back) to win the deal.
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Is Xmas coming back from the dead?
Not gonna happen
Dear Amazon, We Picked Your New Headquarters for You
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...ampaign=buffer
Oh yeah, Denver would be great. Flight cancellations all winter would do wonders for them. I intentionally avoid going through Denver on return trips from California in the winter because you know you're likely to be delayed or cancelled. I'd think Phoenix would be better than that, and getting around? Boston? lol... that place is a cluster for traffic. Austin has traffic issues as well but I can be downtown Austin from the Georgetown area at 8am in about 30 - 45m on most days. The airport is just up the toll road. If they put that center out around Parmer between the toll and Samsung they'd have their pick of routes.
amazon
bezos that ugly gay man
Worst thing thag coukd happen to the world is amazon and we living it
I actually like Amazon and use it all the time. It beats the out of driving all over town and dealing with baby factories with their 12 kids standing in line like it's a hurricane shelter.
Phoenix a amazon headquarters ?
http://www.orionprop.com/topfive/why...-headquarters/
I know I use it too
But I detest it and am trying to use other online companies now
love Amazon Prime i share the cost with my brother
Cities’ Offers for Amazon Base Are Secrets Even to Many City Leaders
Across the country, the search for HQ2, as the project has been nicknamed, is shrouded in secrecy.
Even civic leaders can’t find out what sort of tax credits and other inducements have been promised to Amazon.
And there is a growing legal push to find out,
because taxpayers could get saddled with a huge bill and have little chance to stop it.
“The only time the public may become aware if the city has promised Amazon incentives is if we win and
then we need to get those incentives passed,” Mr. Evans said.
A primary reason for the information blackout is that, in many cases,
the bids were handled by local private Chamber of Commerce affiliates or economic development groups
that aren’t required to make their negotiations public.
Many of the groups are also not covered by Freedom of Information Act or state open-records requests.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/t...rters-hq2.html
local private Chamber of Commerce affiliates or economic development groups : unelected
Amazon is a ty employer by all accounts.
Amazon is in advanced talks about putting second headquarters in Northern Virginia, those close to process say
The plane has not been to 11 other finalist cities.
Some of those were considered long shots from the outset, among them Columbus, Ohio; and Indianapolis.
But experts say it could signal disappointment for other cities that were considered strong possibilities, such as
Chicago, Atlanta and Austin,
if Bezos did not travel to those places some other way.
They say it is very rare to see a chief executive choose a new headquarters site without looking at it personally, even if he or she is not involved in the early or middle stages of the project.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/amazon-in-advanced-talks-about-putting-hq2-in-northern-virginia-those-close-to-process-say/2018/11/02/9be831d6-d7c0-11e8-aeb7-ddcad4a0a54e_story.html?utm_term=.d0284f9b90bb&wpi src=nl_most&wpmm=1
Next to St Ronnie's airport for Bezos' $70M Gulfstream G650ER
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I hope it doesn't come to Austin. I don't plan on selling my home and don't want higher taxes, or that much more traffic. I get how it would be a big deal for Austin and for Texas overall, but personally I'll give a hard pass.
If Jeff Bezos Makes Washington the Second Headquarters of Amazon
The finished property will have
eleven bedrooms,
twenty-five bathrooms,
five staircases, and
a large ballroom suitable for gatherings of Washington’s notables.
It will be, in the words of the journalist Ben Wofford, “a veritable Death Star of Washington entertaining.”
https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-...ters-of-amazon
It would be fine in the Austin area if they put it in the right spot, but it sound like they want to be closer to urban centers than would be available. No sour grapes but Austin will be OK without it.
But don't you want jobs for all your illegal alien buddies?
lol compulsion
You don't want jobs for your illegal alien buddies?
What jobs would illegal aliens get at Amazon HQ2, derp?
Explain.
That's not the question. Would you want the jobs for your illegal alien buddies?
I don't know any illegal aliens.
lol derp's premises
Semantics aside, do you want jobs for illegal aliens?
What jobs would illegal aliens do at Amazon HQ2?
Explain.
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