![]() Not to mention, a key predictor of corporate headquarters location is where the CEO has a home. Because Jeff Bezos already owns The Washington Post, an additional 50,000 Amazon jobs in the DC area might help deflect Congressional attention from his company’s monopolistic tendencies. But, DC is perhaps an equal or even better contender. When I asked Scott Galloway, the author of the book “The Four,” where he thought Amazon would place its new headquarters, he simply said: New York, New York, and New York. My own sense is that about five of the 20 cities – large places with great universities and global gateway airports – are really serious contenders for HQ2.Īt the top of the list, I would place New York, the greatest headquarters city in the world, and DC, the world’s power corridor. So, which city is going to have the moral obligation to do what’s right? ![]() The company would add far more value to its brand by eschewing incentives and instead working with the winner to address challenges like affordable housing and traffic congestion, which its new headquarters is likely to exacerbate. ![]() As one of the world’s most valuable companies, Amazon does not need – and should not be going after – taxpayer dollars that could be better used on schools, parks, transit, housing or other much needed public goods. But, there’s one part of Amazon’s HQ2 competition that is deeply disturbing – pitting city against city in a wasteful and economically unproductive bidding war for tax and other incentives.
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