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Originally Posted by AwesomeSAView
Sooooo, I was rooting for Austin to get the HQ2, but my question is why did Nashville get the 5,000 jobs over Austin??? 
Incentives?
Don't get me wrong, I have visited Nashville and it kinda reminds of Austin.
Major college town, booming economy, tons of young party people, etc .
So any reason, Amazon selected Nashville for the mini HQ?? |
Reason: Hundreds of millions in incentives! Combined, Northern Virginia, NY and Nashville offered over a billion in incentives to woo Amazon. Basically, they paid for HQ2, HQ3 and HQ3.5. This type of economic development is not sustainable. Dangerous.
Amazon already has a significant presence in Austin (I think it's around 7,000 employees). Plus, Austin was not offering any incentives.
Amazon knew where it was going all along. This whole thing was a charade. Amazon received intel on over 230 cities across the U.S. and Canada - worth billions; for free - by bidding HQ2 out to the masses.
Also, how do you define "major college town?" Nashville is great. But, I would not consider Nashville a "major" college town by any means.
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