Northern VA so.people don’t have to click a link.
FYI, the article linked to is from The Washington Post and speculates that the decision was for Northern Virginia, specifically Crystal City. But it’s not definite and no formal announcement has been made. So it could be wrong.
I was betting on Philadelphia, but Northern Virginia makes sense too. Much less of a commute for Bezos.
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Good for the value of my condo. Bad if we ever want to move into a larger place in the same area.
To emphasize just how preliminary (and perhaps incorrect) that article from The Washington Post is, here is the lead from an article in The Wall Street Journal today. “Amazon.com Inc. has progressed to late-stage talks on its planned second headquarters with a small handful of communities including northern Virginia’s Crystal City, Dallas and New York City, people familiar with the matter said, as it nears a final decision that could reshape both the tech giant and the location it chooses.”
Apparently Amazon is going to split the second headquarters into two–so Amazon will have three headquarters all together.
I think this is crazy: other large companies are split into divisions with the headquarters in one city and divisions centered in other cities.
I bet they’ll still want the same subsidies and shit. 
Yeah, I’ll never be able to afford to live in Arlington if they come here. Will wreck my commute even more too.
Probably one of the three places in the D.C. region. None of the other areas are going to come close in terms of available talent.
Ooooh, I see Austin is still in the running! (Has Denver really fallen out of favor or been dropped from consideration?)
As I said on the original thread(s), major cities are in the running. New York, Washington (okay, Northern Virginia:rolleyes:), DFW, and Atlanta.
Pittsburgh, Columbus, Indianapolis, Detroit, and every other up-and-coming city in between never had a chance. Think about it. Why is Amazon desperate to leave Seattle? Because they want exposure. If you want more exposure than Seattle, you don’t move to Pittsburgh; you move to the nation’s capital. You move to one of the top five or sex metropolitan areas. They already have a presence in the West, so they wanted more in the East, which ruled out SF or LA. A Texas town like Houston or Dallas might have a shot, but that’s it. Otherwise, it’s DC or New York. Would have thought Atlanta, but they’re apparently out of the running.
I’m guessing this is what will actually happen.
This is going down pretty much like I thought.
I think you’re somewhat mistaken. First Amazon isn’t “leaving” Seattle; they’ll still have 50,000 or so employees there. Second, they’re not looking for “exposure”, as I think most people have already heard of the company, which is, I think, one of the top five most valuable companies in the world, while the CEO is the richest man in the world.
Here is the top-20 again, courtesy of Paul in Qatar:
- Toronto, ON
- Columbus OH
- Indianapolis IN
- Chicago IL
- Denver, CO
- Nashville TN
- Los Angeles, CA
- Austin TX
- Dallas TX
- Miami FL
- Atlanta GA
- “Northern Virginia”
- Montgomery County MD
- Raleigh NC
- Philadelphia PA
- Pittsburgh PA
- Newark NJ
- New York NY
- Boston MA
- Washington DC
If I had considered there were to be two locations, my #2 choice would’ve likely been NYC, with Boston being a darkhorse contender.
Interesting to note some are still saying Austin. To be honest, I would be thrilled. But I doubt it.
Atlanta has shitty public transit and doesn’t really have a lot of good schools or anything. I don’t think it was ever in the running. DC, NY, Chicago, Maybe Houston or Denver. Boston might have had a shot if they’d been willing to bribe Amazon, but they declined that part of the deal.
Assuming they go to Arlington and Long Island City, it would be great for these areas if there was any reason to think that they’d meet the moment and start allowing new housing and building new transit options (and fixing their current ones). But it’s going to remain illegal to build homes anywhere near these new [del]regional offices[/del] headquarters, and the transit systems are going to be dysfunctional messes, so it’s going to be pretty terrible for anyone not getting an Amazon paycheck.
Georgia has been aggressively earning negative points since January (voting rights scandal, Delta getting punished) and took itself out of the running, tbh.
… and was Time Mags man of the year for 1999.
I mean, really, there’s only one vote that matters in this and that’s Bezos’s. And the best way to figure this out is to ask yourself “If I was the richest man in the world who owned a company in Seattle WA and wanted a 2nd headquarters in the same country (which few other companies have, but whatevs)… I also own the Washington Post and am a bete noir of Donald Two-Scoops Trump… where would I want this 2nd HQ?”
DC/VA or NYC. They’re the only options which make sense.
Sure, they’re in Seattle, but they need a presence outside Seattle. Boeing is in Seattle, but their HQ is now in Chicago. Let’s face it: Seattle is not a headquarters kinda town. Seattle suited Amazon when they were a cute little start-up and technology renegade. But now they’re a business that’s going beyond being just a tech company and now they’re into things like Whole Foods. They’re creating an ecosystem so that essentially they’re in our homes every day. As a big shot investor, I get this stuff. You obviously don’t. But go ahead and claim that Amazon’s going to be a Seattle company when the bulk of their staff, within the next several years, will be near the nation’s capital and two of the top 5 media and consumer markets.