Unless one of the cities listed below is Amazon’s codename for Cleveland, the Forest City is out of the running as the location for the company’s second headquarters.
The 20 finalists released this morning, which includes Columbus, move on to the next phase of Public Subsidy Thunderdome.
Cleveland’s bid was notoriously opaque as public and private officials sought, not always through what appeared to be legal means, to keep the details hidden. Now that we’re out of the running, maybe those involved will finally provide insight into what exactly they were prepared to offer Amazon in the hopes of drawing HQ2 and its accompanying 50,000 jobs.
“Thank you to all 238 communities that submitted proposals. Getting from 238 to 20 was very tough — all the proposals showed tremendous enthusiasm and creativity,” Holly Sullivan, Amazon Public Policy, said in a press release.
“We made a strong proposal for #AmazonHQ2. We are disappointed but as always proud of the great collaborative work our community did to put together the bid. We are ready for the next big opportunity,” Cuyahoga County executive Armond Budish said in a statement.
The finalists:
Atlanta, GA
Austin, TX
Boston, MA
Chicago, IL
Columbus, OH
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
Indianapolis, IN
Los Angeles, CA
Miami, FL
Montgomery County, MD
Nashville, TN
Newark, NJ
New York City, NY
Northern Virginia, VA
Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh, PA
Raleigh, NC
Toronto, ON
Washington D.C.
This article appears in Jan 17-23, 2018.
For future reference in re-election bids, Armond Budish & Friends will claim that the bid placed a strong 21st overall.
The usual suspects…Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Denver, D.C., New York, Philly, Pittsburgh, Toronto. Half the cities on the list are among the most thriving, prospering, “cool” cities, where the “creative class” is already well established. Why am I not surprised?
1) WHAT does THAT say about alllllll the supposed high tech IT types we have here &/or ALLLL the ed $ spent on all this
2) HIDEOUOS give aways.
3) NEWARK? What? the airport, rail, truck systems?
4) “GAMES”. I can pic the posturing…
DOWNTOWN DCA powers that be sorta more or less won. Time will tell HOW viable the wannabe Yuppie crew is. AS always always chasing lake front thing. W/ANY luck FEAR of what befell Dimora and all THAT will reign in would be movers and shakers. BIG new building ‘stuff’. Pfffttt. In a decentralized web based fragmented PT freelancer world gonna have SOME would be local Big Name Big $ ‘genuises’ (LOL) fling up some monstrosities that later turn into blanks in so many ways down the road like way Ameritrust Tower was….. LOT of folks got burned in all this. SURE some think Yeahhh baby can bottomscarf up cheap stuff if wait long enough. THAT assumes something there. THINK of K&D, Chicagos MMPI gig, etc.etc. is NOT that much demand. Trust Me. STILL have enough empty space. We DONT have the big corporates, etc. like THAT anymore….. PS. RNC 16?: SURE doesn’t seem to have all THAT much multiplier spill over affect or least NOT way invisioned except for motel crews…. MED MART is still this pseudo orphan. PSEUDO window dressing and CYA as some Cali tech hub incubator crew among others descends in bid to semi save this mess…. Read whatever want to into all this…. …
Budish? WHAT expect Him to say or do. THANKFUL as H no hideous new stuff. BLESS HIm and others for that. HARD lessons learned here folks. SAY after ALL that has gone down WONT be seeing new big projects, initiatives being done. FOR various reasons ranging the gamut involving DC or OUR own Columbus among other things. GOT the 2 distribution centers. Hallajuha OUR distribution networks… and life goes on.
SURE all this will be used as some teaching moment whipping boy post in bid to….You all will sure fill in blanks ……. PS. Poor CImperman and rest try to chase Creative Class and @ end of the day down to niche odds n ends of whatever coveted IT, Phd types who come to town …..
PS….. SAME ‘games’ w/APPLE…. BIG ONE aka fault line, tsuanami must be on GUESS WHOSE minds there…. DEPENDING on WHICH studies, which geological models the damage, death levels will or can be hideous and sure a REAL blank to corporate models there… WHATEVER else say about mid America or a Ohio least semi stable far as all THAT hideousness goes… SNOWMEGADON sucks but sure beats a 8 point earthquake…. I WISH a earthquake would swallow up the clowns who peddle this schlock all the time…. 1 of OUR ‘cottage industries’ that has life of own as were….