HQ2

Amazon’s Challenge to Institutional Real Estate

Amazon’s top picks for its second headquarters are showing real estate investors how they can find value in select non-gateway markets, argue CenterSquare Invesment Management’s Scott Crowe and Uma Pattarkine.

Amazon’s Quest for HQ2 Broadens

Will it be Chicago? Irvine? Canada? According to a 2017 study by Development Counsellors International, survey respondents choosing the three most favorable U.S. business environments placed Texas first with 42 percent.

Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder & CEO

Amazon to Invest $5B in 2nd North America HQ

The Seattle-based e-commerce giant opened the request for proposals, giving metros with a million-plus population—and other qualifications—the opportunity to submit their bids for the mega project until Oct. 19, 2017.