Amazon’s HQ2

An area known as the Gulch, made up of parking lots and railroad lines, is seen against the downtown skyline in Atlanta on Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018. As Atlanta vies to entice Amazon to build its second headquarters in the South’s corporate capital, local leaders are studying a proposal to build a $5 billion project in the Gulch with more than three times the office space of New York’s Empire State Building. (AP Photo/David Goldman) GADG201

August 31, 2018 at 6:00 am

Mum’s the word as Amazon nears one-year anniversary of HQ2 quest

Amazon's search for a second headquarters is almost a year old. As the company weighs its options in silence, some bidders and close observers anticipate...

Leslie Pool, a member of the Austin City Council, in one of the cities where Amazon is considering building its second headquarters, in Austin, Texas, on July 24, 2018. As Amazon continues its search for its second headquarters, some city officials wonder what was offered and how much it will cost taxpayers. “I don’t know what we offered Amazon in terms of financial incentives, but I believe Amazon wants to see the biggest incentive package that any city will offer them,” said Pool. (Tamir Kalifa/The New York Times) XNYT82

August 5, 2018 at 4:27 pm

Cities’ secretive offers for Amazon’s HQ2 are raising concerns for many city leaders

Across the country, the search for HQ2 is shrouded in secrecy. Even civic leaders cannot find out what tax credits and other inducements have been...

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May 16, 2018 at 9:28 am

It’s not just Amazon: Apple quietly explores northern Virginia campus for 20,000 jobs

Tysons Corner, Loudoun and Crystal City were among those proposed by the governor.

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May 15, 2018 at 9:47 am

Texas city of Arlington says it’s out of bid for Amazon HQ2

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The city of Arlington says it's "no longer moving forward" in the competition to become Amazon's second headquarters, and released details...

May 14, 2018 at 6:00 am

Amazon has been looking outside Seattle to add jobs for years — and now trend is accelerating

Amazon has threatened to halt job growth in Seattle while the City Council debates a new tax on big businesses. But the company is already...

The Amazon Spheres rest beneath Day One, the dominant building owned by the company downtown, on Thursday, August 17, 2017 in downtown.

May 5, 2018 at 2:55 pm

HQ2 cities listen up: Amazon flexing its political muscle sends a message not just to Seattle

The e-commerce titan and Seattle’s biggest single property-tax payer is on a collision course with a majority of the City Council over the proposed head...

A neighborhood in East Nashville where some older homes intermingle with taller, denser new developments, April 19, 2018. The possibility that Amazon could locate its second headquarters in Nashville is unwelcome news to some who dread higher rents in a city where a rising share of residents were already struggling to afford a place to live. (Kyle Dean Reinford/The New York Times) XNYT126 XNYT126

April 25, 2018 at 4:09 pm

What Amazon’s HQ2 could mean for winning city’s rents

Zillow estimates that rents in Nashville, one of 20 finalists for Amazon’s second headquarters, would rise 3.3 percent a year if it landed HQ2, almost...

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Elaine Cleary (right) embraces her girlfriend Arielle Cronig, both students at Ohio State University, on the steps outside the U.S. Supreme Court after the same-sex marriage ruling in Washington on June 26, 2015. MUST CREDIT: Bloomberg photo by Andrew Harrer.

April 20, 2018 at 5:39 pm

The unspoken factor in Amazon’s search for a new home: Jeff Bezos’ support for gay rights

In the company’s HQ2 headquarters hunt, a commitment to social equality might tip the scales.

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April 20, 2018 at 4:03 pm

Amazon employees pushed execs to seek LGBT-friendly city for HQ2

Brian Huseman, an Amazon vice president, earlier this year sent a memo to members an employee group in an effort to reassure them that the...

“Mill 19” sits in the foreground on the newly named “Hazelwood Green” development with the Pittsburgh skyline not so far away , friday October 13, 2017 in the Hazelwood section of Pittsburgh. Workers are removing the steel skin of the Mill. The 178 Acre Almono Site was renamed “Hazelwood Green”. (Darrell Sapp/Post-Gazette)

March 16, 2018 at 11:59 am

Amid bidding war for Amazon HQ2, Pittsburgh debates trade-offs

The nationwide jockeying for HQ2 has sparked a debate about the trade-offs cities and states make to lure megaprojects. That’s playing out in Pittsburgh, where...

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