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Originally Posted by skyscraperpage17
If my hometown of Detroit doesn't get this, I'm definitely going all in for Atlanta.
MARTA may not be perfect, but for Amazon's needs, I would say it's good enough. Many of their employees would likely want to live in downtown / midtown (which is seeing pretty good infill of urban living options), an area that's pretty well covered by the streetcar and MARTA lines.
Also, Atlanta has it's location in the eastern time zone and a relatively low COL (for a city its size) going for it over Denver.
Also, if they select Atlanta and land in South Downtown, it may be enough to finally kick off more rapid growth on the Southside of town (due to far less traffic and, in some cases, shorter commute times).
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Detroit is an interesting Dark Horse (and Minneapolis probably should be on the list of Dark Horse candidates too). Clearly COL is attractive and there are great schools close by in UM, MSU and Chicago not too far away. The transit system is there and the city has "great bones" if that's not an offensive way to describe the plentiful and gorgeous historic (but now dilapidated) buildings. I wonder if Detroit and Michigan, only a few years removed from bankruptcy, are going to be able to offer much in the way of financial incentives. And I also wonder whether there is enough net inward migration of highly educated folks to convince Amazon that it can pull it off. But given all it has going for it, I'm surprised Detroit isn't more often in the conversation as a potential relocation site.