Amazon got a healthy dose of New York brashness Wednesday as city councilmembers grilled company executives and their economic development partners over the plan to build a 25,000-person office in… Read More
Talent, real estate, accessibility, and killer views of the Manhattan skyline. Those are just some of the selling points New York officials used to convince Amazon to plant its (not… Read More
The Empire State Building in New York City has been bathed in light to celebrate everything from the Fourth of July to another Yankees championship. On Tuesday the iconic landmark… Read More
The process that Amazon went through to choose New York, Northern Virginia and Nashville as key sites for expansion isn’t the first HQ2 exercise for CEO Jeff Bezos: You could… Read More
Circle the block all you want, there is no view of Mount Rainier or Puget Sound. You can’t see the Cascades when you look that way, or the Olympics when… Read More
Our live broadcast will start above at 10:00 a.m. PST After a year of high-stakes competition and frenzied speculation, Amazon’s search for a second headquarters ended on Tuesday with a… Read More
The housing markets in Northern Virginia and New York City — winners of the Amazon HQ2/3 sweepstakes — are in for a jolt. Redfin reports that search results in the… Read More
There go the neighborhoods. Whether they’re going in a good or bad direction depends on how you feel about Amazon, and the tech giant’s announcement that it will plant new headquarters… Read More
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Well, it’s not quite HQ2 or HQ 1.5, or whatever Amazon’s headquarters search may now be called. But Nashville — one of the 20 contenders for Amazon’s second headquarters —… Read More
One of the most controversial aspects of Amazon’s year-long search for a second headquarters was the request for government incentives in exchange for creating thousands of jobs and investing billions… Read More
ARLINGTON, Va. — After more than a year of reconnaissance, frenzied speculation, and non-stop media coverage, Amazon’s remarkable “HQ2” search is over. But the high-stakes project really is just beginning,… Read More
Amazon’s continent-wide search for a second headquarters took a strange turn this week after a series of surprising news leaks. It now appears that the company is planning to split… Read More
A ploy. A farce. A PR stunt. Amazon is taking it on the chin this week following reports that it altered course, settling on not one, but two locations — Crystal… Read More
Amazon’s desire to see other cities — revealed by its search for a second headquarters home — hasn’t always cast Seattle in the most flattering light over the past year.… Read More
When Jeff Bezos revealed his plans to open a second Amazon headquarters last September, he said, “we expect HQ2 to be a full equal to our Seattle headquarters.” The announcement… Read More
Amazon plans to split its second headquarters evenly between two cities, an anonymous source familiar with the matter told The Wall Street Journal. It’s the latest twist in the company’s… Read More
While some 50,000 Amazon humans could someday populate the company’s planned second headquarters, HQ2 will also be home to thousands of dogs — if HQ1 in Seattle is any indication.… Read More
For more than a year, few details about the selection process for Amazon’s second North American headquarters — beyond the tech giant’s own disclosures — saw the light of day.… Read More
Amazon officials are notoriously private, declining to give interviews or comments to the press without express consent from the Seattle e-commerce giant. But Mike Grella, Amazon’s director of economic development… Read More
The grand reveal of the city where Amazon will build its second headquarters is expected any day, and some prognosticators are betting Northern Virginia will take home the massive economic… Read More
Reports of Amazon officials revisiting select regions in the running for the company’s second headquarters are trickling in, leaving some cities wondering if they’re still in the game. Earlier this… Read More
Amazon has been steadily increasing its lobbying budget and taking a more central position on the national political stage while simultaneously searching for a city to plant its second headquarters.… Read More
Oddsmakers and analysts are betting on Northern Virginia to take home the much-ballyhooed prize of Amazon HQ2. But Richard Florida, one of the world’s foremost urbanist scholars, thinks they may… Read More
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New reports about Amazon’s visits to two cities in the running for the company’s second headquarters are stirring up fresh speculation about the status of the company’s search. Anonymous sources… Read More
Mr. Bezos is going to Washington, with the eyes of the nation on him. The Amazon CEO arrives in Washington, D.C., this week for a series of talks and appointments.… Read More
Toronto is the only city outside the U.S. in the running for Amazon’s storied second headquarters. That sets the Canadian city apart from its 19 competitors in a number of… Read More
One year ago, Amazon announced it would launch a continent-wide search for a city to host its $5 billion second headquarters. This search has turned the tech world upside down… Read More
After pitching aggressively and offering up millions of dollars in tax incentives, Denver landed a coveted economic development deal earlier this summer. ALSO: Amazon is staffing up in these HQ2… Read More