Amazon HQ2

[Novacek]

Originally Posted by Atlanta3000

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.

It was "considering" Atlanta as much as it was considering other applicants. It had put out a RFC, was communicating clarifications and requirements back and forth, etc.

Originally Posted by Atlanta3000

Amazon was not officially considering Atlanta until 1/18/18 when they announced their Top 20 list.

That statement makes no sense, unless you believe they constructed a top 20 list without reading the prior submissions.

Originally Posted by Atlanta3000

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

Again, no it doesn't. We know that's completely unrelated.

Originally Posted by Novacek

Uh, not Amazon. Unless that site is next to 10 times as many empty lots (to provide the expansion required by Amazon).

Originally Posted by Atlanta3000

I hope you realize when companies move headquarters or have major expansions this is a multi year process.

Uh, yeah. A multi-year process that kicked off in 2017.

Originally Posted by Novacek

So to think Atlanta, JLL or whoever did not have any insider info prior to the RFP is a major "miscalculation" on your part.

So both JLL and Allen Morris (and however many other companies get JLL's quarterly analysis) had literally the business story of the year. For an entire year and sat on it and nothing leaked.