In wooing Amazon, Ottawa makes one list – 'most desperate stunts'
Megan Gillis, Ottawa Citizen
Published on: October 24, 2017 | Last Updated: October 24, 2017 11:29 AM EDT
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Ottawa has made at least one list in its bid to land the new Amazon headquarters.
Too bad it’s Vanity Fair’s roundup of the dozen most “desperate stunts” that cities have pulled to catch the online retail giant’s eye.
The Manhattan-based mag picked up a tweet from an alert Ottawan reporting that Sens fans were invited to “make noise for Amazon” at a recent home game against the Vancouver Canucks.
By all accounts, the response was “tepid.”
Vanity Fair notes that since Amazon announced it was on the hunt for a city to host its second headquarters in a move that could be worth 50,000 jobs and $5 billion in investment, the company reportedly got more than 200 proposals from more than 54 would-be hosts across the continent.
GeekWire got in on the action, too, reporting that “by the 13:47 mark of the second period, they were being asked to cheer against not only Vancouver, but Calgary, Edmonton and Toronto, too” as the video screen flashed the message.
Take heart – we could be more embarrassing.
The Dallas News made CEO Jeff Bezos a Spotify playlist, like some lovestruck teenager.
“Wanna go on a date?” Birmingham, Alabama tweeted.
Tucson-area business leaders tried to send Bezos a 21-foot tall cactus. He declined.
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