With the finish descent of HQ2 delineate closer , Amazon ’s metro region deathmatch select an unexpected turn today which indicated there would be no single succeeder .
The competition to master of ceremonies HQ has long been overshadowed by concerns over strained infrastructure and a year of cities prostrate themselves inincreasingly sticky fashionfor the party favor of Jeff Bezos . By even playing , every entrant had already lost this perverse prisoner ’s quandary of economic subsidies — but in this shell , “ no individual winner ” is far more literal . Reportingby the Wall Street Journal , laterconfirmedby New York Times , suggests the proposed 50,000 employee floor of operations will alternatively be split between two of the finalists .
As for the other 200 + urban center who submitted proposals , well , now Amazon has a rough idea of how much they ’re willing to give for a few more line of work — datum that ’s sure to total in handy in the very skinny future .
The first is Crystal City , a neighborhood in Arlington , Virginia . As long rumored , it ’s within spitting distance of Washington , DC , where Amazon more and more has business , some of it lobbying , but more crucially provide cloud computing support for government agencies like theCIAand theDepartment of Homeland Security . Amazon continues to vie for the Pentagon ’s $ 10 billionProject JEDIcloud declaration against rivals like Microsoft and Oracle .
And the second , well . It ’s goddamn Long Island City , Queens . An already crowded , unaffordable , rapidly gentrify neighbourhood with ready access to plenty of other neighborhood that are likely to become crowded , unaffordable , and gentrified as a solvent . Amazon plan the modal salary of HQ2 proletarian to be over $ 100,000 , just about two-fold themedian household incomein the city . This is to say nothing about the impact half an HQ2 ’s Charles Frederick Worth of Amazonians will have on New York ’s mature transit systems , which arenot in the greatest shape .
When inklings of a multi - city deal were first float earlier this week , Dallas wasreportedto have been one of the three cities potentially receiving Bezos ’s favor . Got ta say , Texas is sounding like a really gracious home to be .
[ WSJ;NYT ]
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