We freaked out over Amazon’s HQ2 search. But it turned out to be for all the wrong reasons | Danny Westneat
Amazon isn't opening a "fully equal" headquarters to rival its Seattle campus, as it had said. Nor was it in search of lower taxes than...
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Can Seattle grow the next Amazon? Lessons from the HQ2 quest | Editorial
With Amazon's next phase of growth happening elsewhere, Seattle and the state of Washington must ensure they can still support big, fast-growing companies.
Cities and states offered Amazon billions, but did it matter?
Unlike the $8.7 billion incentives program Washington state offered Boeing in 2013, the deals Amazon struck are contingent on its adding jobs in its new...
HQ2: What’s in it for New York, Virginia sites? Amazon lays out some perks
After eight years of fraught relations with Seattle, Amazon carefully laid out a few bonuses it will bring Long Island City in its long-awaited HQ2...
What’s next for Seattle after HQ2? Amazon plans suggest expansion, then big hiring slowdown
Seattle’s economic growth since the Great Recession might as well be called the Amazon Boom. But with Amazon’s gaze shifting to New York and Virginia,...
Amazon shifts its sights to the East Coast
The company's headquarters expansion will be in Arlington County, Virginia, and the Long Island City neighborhood of New York, and Nashville will get a 5,000...
Will Amazon’s HQ2 sink Seattle’s housing market?
Probably not, at least not in the next couple years: Amazon still plans to add the equivalent of an HQ2-sized office expansion in Seattle, and...
Amazon selects New York, Northern Virginia, for HQ2 expansion, reports say VIEW
Amazon’s reported selection of the New York City borough of Queens and the Arlington, Va., community of Crystal City, for its expanded headquarters project, would...
What might be behind the latest twist on Amazon’s HQ2(s) | Jon Talton
The latest twist in the search for an ideal equal to Seattle makes plenty of sense. The supposed front-runners offer what Amazon wants as much...
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