[727374]

How ridiculously good is Amazon at getting free press? They have already likely decided on where to put the new HQ (1), and will get featured in these overwhelmingly positive articles for months to come. I'm also reminded of that 60 minutes segment on drone delivery that just happened to air right before cyber Monday a couple years back. Still waiting on that one, although I do actually think it will happen eventually.

*1 https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2017/09/08/amazons...

[sologoub]

From the Brookings article:

> Even if only a few of these assumptions about Amazon’s interests were correct, they would limit Amazon to only one to three places. Amazon already knows that, and given what we know about the company and the site selection industry, it most likely has a favorite.

I think I can guess what they are thinking, but it would be nice if they just named those 3 likeliest metro areas.

[joezydeco]

Why name it and lose any possible tax advantages the target city might offer? That's the thesis of the article.

[sologoub]

I was referring to Brookings naming it, not Amazon.

[joveian]

I still think Bezos wants a headquarters near DC and mostly wants nearby suburbs to outdo each other offering the biggest bribes. However, in addition to the free press I suspect Amazon will make use of the long list of cities most willing to offer large bribes since they are already building other stuff accross the country...