Amazon's Treasure Trove Of Information From The Hq2 Submissions (Amzn)

From Axios:

When Amazon invited cities to compete for its minute global headquarters a yr agone today, it got reams of information from the 238 entrants — plenty to larn details of the cities' hereafter plans that a lot of their residents don't fifty-fifty know about.

Why it matters: The information effectively provided Amazon alongside a database chock amount of granular details close the economical evolution prospects of every major metropolitan expanse inward the U.S. of A. (and some inward Canada). For a rapidly-expanding tech behemoth similar Amazon, that database could attention it brand expansion decisions that acquire means beyond the novel headquarters.

Companies bring conducted site searches inward the past, but none bring come upwardly unopen to the scale of the Amazon HQ2 search. That's because Amazon is "not but looking for HQ2," says Joe Parilla of the Brookings Institution. "They're looking for where they're going to position the side past times side information center, the side past times side logistics center, the side past times side R&D facility."

• Amazon's warehouses are inside xx miles of 31% of the U.S. of A. population, acre Walmart — its challenger — owns stores inside xx miles of 98% of the population, says Cooper Smith, an manufacture analyst at Gartner L2.
• "Given they are siting novel facilities similar mad, this is a huge gift provided past times taxpayers," Richard Florida, a professor at the University of Toronto, tells Axios.

Much of the quantitative information that Amazon picked upwardly from cities is publicly available, Parilla says. What matters is the qualitative information cities offered upwardly — they permit Amazon inward on their wildest dreams.

• The variety of details that powerfulness live on inward a typical HQ2 application include plans for novel prepare stations or shopping complexes — information the city's ain residents wouldn't have, he says....

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