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Originally Posted by brando
Agreed. I think the public transportation and car traffic will cross it off the list rather quickly.
Plus, the Governor, Lt. Governor and Texas Senate are going to push to pass another bathroom bill in 2019. Why would you walk into that if you were Amazon?
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Probably just wishful thinking on my part, but I could almost imagine Abbott backing away from his bathroom bill support in the event Bezos and Amazon made a big point about it. Bezos likes to be a change agent. That is why he bought the Washington Post. He has Texas bonafides. 50,000 Amazon jobs in the Metroplex would likely soften up support from the DFW delegation to the Texas Senate and House for anti LGBT legislation. Meanwhile the DFW area has lots of underutilized light rail and a growing commuter rail network. There are several large transit adjacent parcels in the DFW area that would be ideal for an Amazon HQ2. DFW can adequately supply Amazon's workforce requirements. They've had no problem attracting tech savvy workers to the area. I don't think Austin has a real shot at this because of our lack of transit and even more limited express highway offerings. We just could not handle the additional traffic.