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A List of Cities’ Outrageous Amazon HQ Bids
In September, Amazon announced its plans to build a second headquarters in a to-be-determined city. After releasing their statement, 238 cities submitted bids to the e-commerce giant to persuade the company as to why their city is the best pick.
The campus, which will be called HQ2, is expected to bring 50,000 new jobs to its new home, and Amazon will invest $5 billion for construction into the city of its choosing. While some online gambling sites are betting on Atlanta or Austin as the chosen one, here is a brief look at some of the mind-blowing proposals that Amazon received from others:
- Columbia, St. Louis and Kansas City, Missouri have an idea to build a hyperloop between the three cities in Missouri’s statewide bid. A feasibility study is already in the works.
- Dallas, Texas – To build a bullet train, which is expected to cost $15 billion and span 240-miles transporting people from Houston to Dallas in 90 minutes.
- Phoenix, Arizona – A plan to renovate its first shopping center, which opened in the 1950s, into the site for HQ2.
- Newark, New Jersey – Governor Chris Christie is offering tax breaks worth $7 billion over the next 10 years by expanding a subsidy program, and offering economic incentives to companies launching transformative projects in the city.
- Frisco, Texas – Offered to build a city around Amazon’s campus. Mayor Jeff Cheney said their city is only 60% built out, and has a population of about 160,000, so they are basically saying – “if you build it, they will come.”
For more of the proposals from various cities, click the box below!
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