It looks like Atlanta may still be in the running for Amazon’s second world headquarters after all. A new report from the Wall Street Journal says that Amazon’s HQ2 will be split evenly between two cities.
The move would mean that each city would have about 25,000 employees each. The news gives life to several leading cities, including Atlanta, which heard with the rest of us last week that the HQ2, at least one of them, would be located in the Virginia area.
Of all the cities vying to become the Amazon HQ2, Atlanta figured it had a leg up on the competition: world class airport, sizeable downtown and entertainment district, affordable housing and MARTA.
But Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and team have been eerily silent on which city they will choose to bring 50,000 jobs to and $5 billion in investment. But now the world’s biggest online retailer has announced that it will have an answer before end of year.
Late-stage negotiations with the New York City-New Jersey area involve more than $7 billion in incentives, the Journal reports.
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