sooo it comes out -- how 'bout dat cleveland bid!
it seems nyc wasnt the only one throwing around mega huge incentives -- much bigger than we all even suspected i think -- $3.5B here --
Cleveland’s bid for Amazon offered prime downtown real estate and unprecedented city and county tax breaks
Updated Mar 10, 6:21 PM; Posted Mar 9, 2019
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- To entice the world’s largest online retailer to build its second headquarters here, the region’s leaders offered Amazon access to a patchwork of downtown and waterfront real estate that would have embedded the company throughout the core of the city and likely changed its look and feel.
The proposal, made public for the first time this week, also dangled unprecedented financial incentives worth up to $3.5 billion that included the City of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County giving Amazon much of the new income and property taxes generated by the project.
more:
https://www.cleveland.com/news/2019/...ax-breaks.html