Amazon HQ2

[Atlanta3000]

Originally Posted by Novacek

No, they made the perfectly accurate statement that Amazon (as of September 2017) was eyeing Atlanta for a HQ.
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You're incorrectly inferring that Amazon's inclusion on that list is what was sourced from JLL, and not data on company relocation reasons : "favorable cost of living, quality of education, tax
benefits, and more."

Come on, it was clearly a last-minute add, hoping to ride the coattails of the HQ2 buzz. Arguably the statement "for their North American Headquarters" isn't even accurate in the case of Amazon.

Think. So JLL knew about HQ2, a massive news story, literally a year before anyone else? And the word didn't get out, even though they included it in a Q4 2016 report they distributed to a bunch of other companies?

Based on public information, Amazon was not looking at Atlanta as of 9/21/17 (the data of the presentation). Amazon had just released the RFP on 9/7/2017 and cities had to return responses on 10/15/17. Amazon "officially" was not looking at Atlanta until they announced their Top 20 List 1/18/18.

Your analysis makes zero sense. "...clearly a last-minute add..." amounts to Allen Morris falsely making claims to potential investors because Amazon was not officially considering Atlanta until 1/18/18 when they announced their Top 20 list.

Unless, JLL did have an inside track that Amazon was looking at Atlanta as early as Q4 2016 noted at the bottom of the presentation. And whether you can't connect the dots, it ties into the Atlanta Business Chronicle story published a month before Amazon's RFP about a corporate relocation looking a Atlanta for 500K sqft (which just happens to be the same amount of office space Amazon noted in their RFP for Phase I).
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/s...1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-b-1

Lastly, anyone with an ounce of sense believes Amazon already knew a short list of cities they were interested in prior to the RFP and this whole shit show is a major PR stunt. I hope you realize when companies move headquarters or have major expansions this is a multi year process. So to think Atlanta, JLL or whoever did not have any insider info prior to the RFP is a major "miscalculation" on your part.