PHILADELPHIA-CAMDEN-WILMINGTON-ATLANTIC CITY-READING | Metro Development Thread

[Milksteak]

Originally Posted by summersm343

Yeah... so dumb and shortsighted on Amazon's part. Not only does Philadelphia and the surrounding region have access to some of the top talent from top Universities in the country (Penn, Temple, Drexel, St. Joes, LaSalle, Villanova, UDel, etc.), but a major company located in Philadelphia could EASILLY recruit from Penn State, Lehigh, Princeton, Rutgers, Pittsburgh (Carnegie Mellon, Pitt) DC (Georgetown), Baltimore (Johns Hopkins), NYC (Columbia, NYU)... and could probably even recruit pretty easily from New England (Yale, MIT, Cambridge, Brown, Cornell)... etc. etc.... the list goes on.

I mean, just so unbelievably dumb and shortsighted. A major company like Amazon located behind 30th Street station would have NO issue recruiting from all over the Northeast due to this locations Rail interconnectivity with the rest of the Northeast, PHL, highway interconnectivity, etc. etc.

Yeah, Boston wasn't born an engineering hub. It's so ironic they went with DC and NYC. If only there was a location directly in the middle of those two