{"id":1004204323,"date":"2018-01-19T04:09:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T12:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/?p=1004204323"},"modified":"2018-01-19T04:41:08","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T12:41:08","slug":"juggernauts-contenders-make-the-cut-on-amazons-shortlist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/juggernauts-contenders-make-the-cut-on-amazons-shortlist\/","title":{"rendered":"Juggernauts, Contenders Make the Cut on Amazon&#8217;s Shortlist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Barbra Murray<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1004190092\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/Amazon-employee.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1004190092\" data-attachment-id=\"1004190092\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/amazon-to-open-first-fulfillment-center-in-ny\/amazon-employee\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/Amazon-employee.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"843,620\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;Adriana Pop&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1505151528&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Amazon employee\" data-image-description=\"&lt;p&gt;Employee picking at eighth generation FC&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Employee picking at eighth generation FC&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/Amazon-employee.jpg?w=843\" class=\"wp-image-1004190092 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/Amazon-employee.jpg\" alt=\"Employee picking at eighth generation FC\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/Amazon-employee.jpg 843w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/Amazon-employee.jpg?resize=300,221 300w, https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/46\/2017\/09\/Amazon-employee.jpg?resize=768,565 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1004190092\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Employee picking at eighth generation FC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>And then there were 20. It\u2019s been a frenzied four months for the throng of cities and states vying to host Amazon\u2019s $5 billion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/amazon-to-invest-5b-in-2nd-north-america-hq\/\">second North American headquarters<\/a> project, but the competition is over, at least for most of them. Amazon has whittled the list of hopefuls down to 20 cities from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialsearch.com\/news\/amazons-quest-for-hq2-broadens\/\">238 respondents<\/a> to the e-commerce giant\u2019s Request for Proposal, issued in October 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The HQ2 development is quite an undertaking and not for the faint of heart. The initial phase will produce approximately 500,000 square feet of space, with subsequent phases yielding a campus encompassing in excess of 8 million square feet.<\/p>\n<p>Metros that made it to the second round include usual Tier 1 suspects:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Atlanta<\/li>\n<li>Boston<\/li>\n<li>Chicago<\/li>\n<li>Dallas<\/li>\n<li>Denver<\/li>\n<li>Los Angeles<\/li>\n<li>Miami<\/li>\n<li>New York<\/li>\n<li>Washington, D.C.<\/li>\n<li>Toronto<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Several other contenders also\u00a0made the cut:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Austin<\/li>\n<li>Columbus, Ohio<\/li>\n<li>Indianapolis<\/li>\n<li>metro D.C.\u2019s Montgomery County, Md.<\/li>\n<li>Nashville, Tenn.<\/li>\n<li>Philadelphia<\/li>\n<li>Raleigh, N.C.<\/li>\n<li>Newark, N.J.<\/li>\n<li>suburban D.C.\u2019s Northern Virginia<\/li>\n<li>Pittsburgh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>\u201cGetting from 238 to 20 was very tough\u2014all the proposals showed tremendous enthusiasm and creativity,\u201d <\/em>Holly Sullivan, with Amazon Public Policy, said in a prepared statement.<\/p>\n<p>In reviewing the bids for HQ2, Amazon put all RFP respondents on a level playing field; the selection process was all business, no sentiment. Hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, which submitted a proposal just one month after Maria made landfall and ignited a still-lingering period of sweeping devastation, is no longer in the running.<\/p>\n<p>For Detroit, which continues to pick up the pieces following its emergence from bankruptcy in 2014, landing the project\u2014and the 50,000 high-paying jobs that will come with it\u2014would have sparked the city\u2019s renaissance. But there are no sour grapes here. <em>\u201cMichigan\u2019s spirit is unstoppable, and so is our comeback. This won\u2019t set us back\u2014we\u2019re accelerating to the next opportunity. We know it\u2019s out there,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0said Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder, in prepared remarks, of Amazon\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<h2>Somewhere in the middle<\/h2>\n<p>Moving on to the next stage of the selection process, Amazon will connect with the 20 shortlisters to delve into the intricacies of each proposal. It\u2019s anyone\u2019s guess just where the company will choose to build the highly coveted HQ2, but the investment community has its opinions.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLikely not in New York or LA, and more likely in Austin or Columbus,\u201d<\/em> Jeff Holzmann, managing director at social investment network iintoo, asserted in a prepared statement. <em>\u201cThe issue is that Amazon loses leverage power the bigger the city is, but can&#8217;t afford to enter a market not big enough in the first place to support its recruiting demand.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Amazon plans to settle on a winner sometime in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image courtesy of Amazon.com Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost 240 cities and states responded to the company\u2019s RFP for its second headquarters, and 20 have made it on the shortlist. 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