Amazon HQ2 thread - Page 172

C. · #**3421** Posted **Nov 5, 2018, 7:52 PM**

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Originally Posted by BrownTown

Wonder if they will still expect the full subsidies from both cities.

skyscraperpage17 · #**3422** Posted **Nov 5, 2018, 7:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Larry King

So Dallas and Arlington?

I would think Austin and Arlington.

But I guess we'll see...

Sun Belt · #**3423** Posted **Nov 5, 2018, 7:53 PM**

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Originally Posted by Sun Belt

There can only be 1 winner. There are going to be some worthy cities that'll fall short for whatever it is that Amazon is in need of..

*Correction*

There can only be two ‘winners’.

The North One · #**3424** Posted **Nov 5, 2018, 7:53 PM**

lol so they officially lied, now they cut it in half, this shit is really something.

CherryCreek · #**3425** Posted **Nov 5, 2018, 7:55 PM**

Nailed this one months ago!!

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showpost.php?p=8051229&postcount=1987

skyscraperpage17 · #**3426** Posted **Nov 5, 2018, 7:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by The North One

lol so they officially lied, now they cut it in half, this shit is really something.

What exactly did they lie about?

They never said it wouldn't be split up between multiple cities.

k1052 · #**3427** Posted **Nov 5, 2018, 7:56 PM**

I remain comfortable with my recent posts in this thread.

My strong suspicion is that the big question remaining had been where to locate the 2nd site.

The North One · #**3428** Posted **Nov 5, 2018, 7:57 PM**

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Originally Posted by skyscraperpage17

What exactly did they lie about?

They never said it wouldn't be split up between multiple cities.

Is this a joke? They've been promoting this as a 50,000 job one city HQ since day one.

jmecklenborg · #**3429** Posted **Nov 5, 2018, 8:03 PM**

They're going to split it between Minneapolis and St. Paul. Or KC Kansas & KC Missouri.

skyscraperpage17 · #**3430** Posted **Nov 5, 2018, 8:06 PM**

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Originally Posted by The North One

Is this a joke? They've been promoting this as a 50,000 job one city HQ since day one.

Nowhere in the RFP does it say multiple cities wouldn't be selected.

No one from Amazon ever said that either.

C. · #**3431** Posted **Nov 5, 2018, 8:06 PM**

DC and Northern Virginia
Newark and NYC

LouisVanDerWright · #**3432** Posted **Nov 5, 2018, 8:07 PM**

Lol what was once a fun contest whose outcome I was very interested in has just devolved gradually into a shit show rat race. If this is how Amazon is going to operate, I don't think we want them in Chicago. I mean these could all still be rumors, but literally they are now talking about splitting this up and then they are going to toss it in some shitty suburban areas. I'm sorry, but we already saw what happens to giant retailers that decide to start locating their headquarters out in the burbs here in Chicago. One just finally went bankrupt the other day...

Could this be Amazon's "Sears Moment"? Where instead of picking an urban location in a location somewhat in tune with the latest cultural trends, they decide to high tail it to the burbs where their business model can slowly rot over the next few decades? When Sears abandoned their tower for Hoffman Estates that was the beginning of the end of them. It took a few decades, but the damaged caused by inundating your business with suburban 'culture' runs deep.

At this point I hope HQ2 is going to somewhere truly awful like Crystal City and Indianapolis.

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Originally Posted by Don't Be That Guy

Crystal City is next door to an airport with direct flights to most US cities; it has a shockingly high vacancy rate of 20% so it's cheap compared to other places in the DC metro area, largely under single ownership; has room for expansion; and accessible by transit. It's not the worst pick for a potentially massive campus.

Jeeze, no one else wants to be there, why does Amazon? I mean that's shockingly high, but par for the course for many suburban markets around the country right now. All of Chicago's suburban office submarkets are in the 15-25% vacancy range while downtown sub markets range from low to high single digits vacancy.

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Originally Posted by Kenmore

imagine getting paid to write an article about how chicago won't "concede" as if that's even a thing

the trib is...bad

Literally what I was just going to say: "so what exactly is the point of this article?" No shit Chicago's leaders aren't going to be like "welp, I just read a rumor in the paper, let's pack up and go home boys"...

Now articles like THAT make a city look desperate...

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Originally Posted by BrownTown

Wonder if they will still expect the full subsidies from both cities.

Oh jeeze, probably...