Amazon Narrows Field For Second Headquarters Location To 20
By Spencer SoperBloomberg
Amazon.com Inc. narrowed the field of contenders for its proposed new headquarters to 20, with New York, Boston, Chicago, Miami and Austin, Texas, in the final group.
Birmingham, which gained national attention with its clever campaigns using giant Amazon boxes and dash buttons to get noticed, did not make the cut.
READ MORE: Birmingham’s campaign to lure Amazon HQ2Seattle-based Amazon solicited proposals in September for its second corporate seat, a project that’s expected to cost more than $5 billion and create 50,000 high-paying jobs over the next 10 to 15 years. Politicians across the U.S. and Canada eagerly expressed interest, and the company received proposals from 238 locations, including from smaller markets like Tulsa, Oklahoma and Memphis, Tennessee. The company plans to make a decision this year and will continue discussions with the finalists, it said in a statement Thursday.
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