Amazon Bidding War
Business Insider has a list of potential cities that may win the new Amazon HQ along with its 50,000 jobs:
- (10) - Salt Lake City
- (9) - Boston
- (8) - Portland Oregon
- (7) - Miami
- (6) - NYC/New Jersey/White Plains
- (5) - Pittsburgh
- (4) - Rochester, NY
- (3) - Philadelphia
- (2) - Atlanta
- (1) - Austin
Chicago must have come in at number 1A, which means it's almost a lock since Austin is in Texas and Amazon is run by a bunch of bleeding-heart liberals who hate Texas. Congratulations are in order for the 9.5 digit midget.
Labels: city politics
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
75 Comments:
It was always going to end up in Austin. You don't buy Whole Foods and not expand next to them.
Countdown to Rahm calling Amazon racist, or something.
Austin is a bleeding heart liberal city. UT is there.
You forgot the listing between 9 and 10.
(9.5) Chicago
If Shitcago were to get HQ2 that means we tax payers are fucked. rahm will have given away everthing worth anything to land it. Taxes will go up higher and faster to make up for what was given away.
On the bright side, Bezos didn’t get where he’s at being dumb. Chicago to the rest of the U.S. translates to Joke.
There aren’t 50k people here qualified to work for HQ2. Schools are a joke, crime is rampant, weather, traffic, taxes, for get it.
It's a business... business does not want to pay taxes... so I don't think Chicago is gonna get amazon
I hope AMAZON doesnt come here-too many smaller stores, mom and pop stores, neighborhood stores will all be wiped out, what’s left of them anyway...
As a kid growing up in Chicago in the ‘60s, it simply didn’t get better than regular stops at “Delkers”, the penny candy store at Lunt & Western!
Good luck to the new kids going thru the testing process!
Mayor McCheese should has spend 100 million buy up south side or west side property From an inside construction company like how stupid Daley did for the Olympics... and have shit on his face when amazon tell him to go hell.
Whole Foods has its HQ in Austin,TX. Whole Foods is owned by amazon.
Chicago won't get this. Stop dreaming.
Nope. Not Chicago. You want libtards? Portland, Oregon.
who the hell would locate to killinois let alone shitcago ???
To correct SCC's last paragraph regarding the 2016 presidential election results: While the entire State of Texas voted Trump over Clinton 53% to 43%, Austin (Travis County) was a blue spot in a sea of red. Clinton carried Travis County 67% to Trump's 27%.
Prediction: Bezos will pick liberal Austin.
Hey Rahm give Hillary and Bill a call maybe they could help. oh yeah that's right they're gone and so will you in 2019. Bye Bye ♠️
Chicago and Detroit are in a tie for last place
Austin is liberal
Interesting
Bezos is very left wing and even though his company wants to be handling all aspects of American life from soup to nuts there is not any outcry about putting "little guys" out of business.
Walmart, on the other, hand has an owner at the other end of the political spectrum who gets marches and protests every time he wants to open a store that will "put the little guy out of business"
Rahm isn't talking since the bids are secret. I wonder which spot on the lakefront he has promised them as well as billions in incentives.
50,000 jobs? Yeah right. I wonder how many will be H1B visa holders and "immigrants" doing jobs Americans won't do!
Amazon = Lympics for Rahm. The loss of "Da Lympics" for Daley was the end of his Magic. The loss of Amazon will be the same for Rahm. I realize there are people who think that because O'Hare is thriving, that we are the center of the universe. Yet the reality of crime, and the Racial Divisiveness and corruption that are at the core of Chicago makes this place extremely unattractive. Now add our workforce of poorly educated labor, and Chicago loses. Especially when you balance our basic Canadian labor force against a Disciplined Workforce of young Mormons. And if you doubt me, talk to anyone who works the UPS facility just outside of Chicago. Rahm's days of being Da Godfather, and Lil Tough Guy are over! The Power of the Clintons is history, as Hillary showed with her defeat and the virtual collapse of the Clinton Foundation. Obama too is history. There would not have been a second term for Rahmi f the McDonald video had not been suppressed. I hope it is Salt Lake City. Stay safe. Baby "G"
If Amazon selects Chicago, can rahmie and taxwinkle put a tax on each parcel that goes through there system?
Austin is too small a metro for the # of employees they want to hire. Dallas would make a lot more sense. Atlanta is my other guess. Chicago? NFW!
Only a lifetime, libtard, feeding at the public trough, career democratic politician would think that Amazon would put HQ2 anywhere near Chiraq. People fleeing Chicago more than any other state in the US; murder capital of the US; highest taxes in the country; Bezos is a real-life hard working business man who wants to continue to build his company - Chiraq is obviously not the place to do it.
A smokescreen. Bezos is the king of automation. No way there will be 50k jobs.
You can back that you have looked at the crime statistics in Chicago, looked at the anti-police bias looked at what the mayor and his minions have done to the Chicago Police Department, looked at the high taxes all the bloodshed all the murder and said no way. Look at all the senior citizens being beat up shot,and murdered! We cannot even protect the people that made it to work ripe old age. To the citizens this is not the fault of the hard-working Chicago police officers this bloodshed falls directly on the people you put in the office, also the dishonest media who constantly attacked a police you keep supporting people like this, you're supporting the murder and mayhem!
If Amazon was in Illinois we'd have to pay sales tax
You mean Rham wont pull out the big guns?? Obama and Doprah wont go to bat for the little dictator? Amazon is gonna shove up your dancing ass Rham...get the lube and spin on this!!!! We the citizens are burdened enough with taxes.
SCC! You are wrong. Governor Fossshhhter Brooks, excuse (hiccup) me, Governor Mark Dayton of Minnesota said that they will get the new Amazon headquarters. It is a done deal!
Austin is full of bleeding heart liberals.
I know of at least ten people who wrote letters to Amazon about the crime and taxes their employees would have to endure. Who knows, maybe the letters had an effect.
Never liked them anyway.
Austen,TX is like Madison,WI. But with better weather. Both are whacked-out lib college towns.
yup lets open a business in Chicago where everyone has their hand out from the local alderman to the crooked building inspector, where license, permit fees are high along with taxes, great job Democrats you have destroyed Chicago's business base in just a few short years.
duh, now we know who the real DREAMERS are; anyone who would dream the dream that any major business would locate any major anything in Chicongo unless it's already here
Next Dreamers will move on to Dream that what is here already stays here
Hard to get around the rate of murder and shootings. Probably didn't take Amazon too long to google up the crime rate and go "Oh hell no!" Also being a sanctuary city for criminals and illegal aliens probably didn't help Chicago's case, (although Amazon would probably never publicly say anything like that.)
J.J.
No Fox Conn for Chicago/ Illinois. No Amazon for Chicago/ Illinois. Yes to more higher taxes for Chicago/ Illinois. Yes to more thugs and higher crime rate for Chicago/ Illinois.
Bezo doesn't want to save a city, Detroit, Cleveland, Buffalo, Chicago, St. Louis, Washington DC, Memphis, Hartford, Gee why does Chicago belong on this list of crappy cities?
Not with our city and state pension mess!
Austin isn't Texas anymore. And it breaks my heart.
Chicago must have come in a .5 !
With 9.5's tutelage it's operation would be a perfect Ten!
Quality of employees, not gonna get that here.
Mayor McCheese should has spend 100 million buy up south side or west side property From an inside construction company like how stupid Daley did for the Olympics... and have shit on his face when amazon tell him to go hell
I'll bet your case reports are a riot around the old water cooler! Geez!
Nope, no way, no how.......no Amazon in this city where the murders top the charts, 3000+ shot yearly, and the "worker class" would steal that company blind.....you know, like why the south and west sides are "food deserts" and no decent big store can afford the security costs..
Amazon wants tax breaks, decent weather, an international airport, access to freight lines, and a quality staff. Affordable housing is also on the list. My bet is Phoenix Az or Gilbert, Az.....
Both have all these things. Bezos is a smart guy.....gonna be a non-Union state, where the politicians aren't money-grubbing thieves....
Austin, Tx a great place, very liberal, but the state isn't......same with SLC, Ut, plus being rather un-accessible up there in the mountains....
Anyway, bottom line, who cares? We the consumers have ruined so many companies and put them in dire straits by being lazy and taking all our business to EBay, Amazon, etc, and making them rich beyond belief, while they pay the worker-bees that lousy $10 an hour.....
Would you pick a Chicago education for your children? I think not......
Amazon may be putting out their intentions with a list of locations, but they won't put out what they are really seeking.
Amazon doesn't need money or incentives at all, they have and make plenty.
They are being about transparent as business allows, even though they own the vast monopoly of online retail.
Again, this Amazon expansion thing didn't spawn overnight but a couple years ago.
What we the public taxpayer don't know is what Rahm is offering.
He won't say and no "investigative" media hype is asking.
That's were the problem exists.
He's hoping to parlay this with some overstated jobs fantasy to bolster his announced re-election, something no other challenger can do.
It takes away the whole community violence and murder story form the tender minds of liberals.
There are plenty of City Hall insiders looking to unload a huge portion of real estate.
Its just to whom and not where the Amazon deal lands.
Amazon may be extremely liberal but they would definitely pick Texas and other red states due to the economy there and low taxes. Financially it would benefit them to locate to a red state. Then again, I'm sure Illinois is going to try to give away the house to land them so they might pick here.
(OT) Thanks to almighty God for seeing that rahms lies,and the high shooting and murder rates,plus the high rate of shootings and killing! Lets not forget the latest trend by the black groups who are beating and killing senior citizens, this city is totally out of control!
What would happen if Amazon brought 50,000 workers to your city? Ask Seattle.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-amazon-50000-workers-seattle-20171020-story.html
Lets see the rahm owned beholden to the pathetic lying democrats what do they say:
But as Seattleites will say, keeping up with the Internet juggernaut has not always been easy, providing a word of caution for officials from other cities willing to pursue the company at great expense.
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Which means that taxpayers would be screwed even more,but rahm and his crew would be flush with manila envelopes,laughing like hyenas drinking wine and eating cheeses as the bodies continue to drop!
In Seattle, that meant rehabbing an area of more than 350 acres at a cost to taxpayers of hundreds of millions of dollars in ongoing transportation and infrastructure upgrades expanding public transit, road networks, parks and utilities.
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Rahm and his fiscally irresponsible crew can not even fund the police pension,and viciously took away police retirees health care while funding illegal invaders violating federal immigration laws!
Bezos read the papers, reads letters sent to him,and he definitely looked at our excessive crime rate, the breaking federal laws sanctuary city bullshit,and finally said no dice! Rahm lies and people die!!God bless the police!!
It will be just like the Olympics “the first city out of the running is, Chicago, IL”. When I heard that I choked on my food and couldn’t stop laughing all day.
We have about the same chance as we did during the Olympic bid.
We just saved the taxpayers hundreds of millions without this shitshow! Then you look at these headlines it is not a stretch to see jeff bezons amozons haed looks at the papers and news media here:
2nd school forfeits football game vs. Hope; 'Maybe we're not reading same Bible'
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-hope-academy-another-football-forfeit-20171020-story.html
This part is great:
“I don’t want to judge them, but if it were the reverse, we’d come to their place no matter what,” Muzikowski said. “Maybe we’re not reading the same Bible. There’s ‘Do not fear’ all over it. I said it to both of the heads of those schools (St. Francis and Bishop McNamara) – we had had an opportunity to do something great and they chose not to do it.
Of course you would come to their place, the area is safe not rife with shootings,murder,mayhem people over there obviously behave! That school needs to close,rahms values "for the children" cannot even protect them anywhere, but steps up to go after the thin blue line!
I'm thinking of Nelson from The Simpson's, or The Event at Daley Center where they announced the possible locations for the Summer Olympics.
Retired & Happy
This is better than when the olympic committee caused dicky to shit his pants and trash a hotel room when we didn't make the short list for the olympics. Probably 'cuz we're led by people from the sorry bus.
Gary Indiana is my bet. Can change a whole town with one company. When the dust setttles, Im moving to Gary
(OT) finally some good neighborhood news;
Midway Airport Neighborhoods See Biggest Growth in Home Prices This August
https://www.neighborhoods.com/blog/midway-airport-neighborhoods-see-biggest-growth-in-home-prices-this-august
Was at the credit union today talking to guy about a home-equity loan and showed him the article, he said so many recruits want to live in a Garfield Ridge area and are applying for loans. This is great news for the area! God bless the police!
Austin, Tx ,270 sq miles surrounded by reality.
Why would anyone want to save a city that does not want to save itself?
"If Amazon was in Illinois we'd have to pay sales tax"
1. We've been paying sales tax on Amazon for more than two years now.
2. Even if we did not, we would be now - because of the Whole Foods acquisition.
austin, texas is the blueberry in the tomato soup of texas...so said gov. perry...aystin is liberal heaven...lbj's hometown...bezos is the largest land owner in texas,,,he spent his youth on ranches around there...austin is it!
hey ssc my bet is Maywood,ill downtown Maywood full of liquor stores and beaty salons, hey who know the ceo might want to have a glass of reserve beer, night train , or wild goose gin.
I say 9.5 should bring back the head tax. It can be put in our pension.
It will be just like the Olympics “the first city out of the running is, Chicago, IL”. When I heard that I choked on my food and couldn’t stop laughing all day.
I did the dance of joy and I hope tp do it again.
You mean Amazon isnt coming after they opened that massive small city sized distribution center here? Oh wait that is Wisconsin just over the border. Same as ULines new massive facility.
Whatever his politics, Bezos didnt become a bilionaire by being stupid. Chicago and Illinois taxes are not buisness friendly.
He already knows where it will go, he is just waiting to see if any other city gives away the whole store to make it slighyly more profitable.
Every piece I have read/watched/listened to has Austin as the winner.
Anyone looking to make a profit with an educated workforce, non excessive tax rates and decent climate wouldnt even open up a dog shit cleaning buisness here.
if Chicago wins Amazon loses. Taxes, crime, government corruption, and let's not forget the ethics of the folks they will be forced to hire.
Chicago isn't on the list because Chicago is getting HQ2. Amazon wants Chicago because of logistics.
Austin, home of UT, is an exception to the "Texas Rule."
“Bezos is very left wing and even though his company wants to be handling all aspects of American life from soup to nuts there is not any outcry about putting "little guys" out of business.
Walmart, on the other, hand has an owner at the other end of the political spectrum who gets marches and protests every time he wants to open a store that will "put the little guy out of business”
Pretty lame parallel you’re trying to draw there being that Chinamart has been in business nearly 60years has decimated middle American communities pays a shit wage and sells infrerior products. Amazon has been in business for 25years provides consumers with a limitless supply of products and pays a decent wage with benefits
Austin will get it. Highly educated (but liberal) population. City is growing rapidly with young people. Dell computer is there too. Good climate for business. People don't leave Austin like they are leaving Chicago.
Amazon will be in the suburbs, next to O'hare airport, if they were run smartly!
Chicago is an armpit of corruption [Mayor and the 50 thieves] and high taxes!
Why do business here!
Propose Englewood as the primary HQ2 location and and how great it would be to employ the good people and folks of the community. If Bezos rejects the offer, parade out Sharpton, the Obamas, Holder, the teacher's union, etc to make accusations of racism.
Imagine the "shrinkage" at the Chicago location.
Even if chicago landed Amazon. Rham can't force them to live in this hell hole of a city. Really he will just be improving the northern suburbs. All it will take is someone's first bag tax and no shopping again in the city.
Chicago is the perfect location for Amazon. Chicago has a rich retail history. Marshall Fields to Montgomery Wards to Polk Bros. Although, Sears could have been Walmart or Amazon, but they lost focus and started hawking mortgages and securities. Our overall crime rate is low. It is just a few neighborhoods that produce most of the murders and violent crime. We have several world class universities...Chicago, NU, Illinois, Loyola, IIT. All Interstates and rail line run through Chicago. We have ports and great intermodal facilities. Let's root for the home team.
Anonymous :) thanks for the tip on the "dog shit cleaning business", lol, sounds very "franchisable"...would probably work anywhere except Chicongo which is the city where nothing will work unless yer'a nazicrat politician type
so I won't even be offering a "dog shit cleaning" franchise in Chicongo for nobody :)
Alexa, why is Chicago called the Windy City?
Alexa's response: Because it blows!
" Anonymous said...
Chicago is the perfect location for Amazon. Chicago has a rich retail history. Marshall Fields to Montgomery Wards to Polk Bros. Although, Sears could have been Walmart or Amazon, but they lost focus and started hawking mortgages and securities. Our overall crime rate is low. It is just a few neighborhoods that produce most of the murders and violent crime. We have several world class universities...Chicago, NU, Illinois, Loyola, IIT. All Interstates and rail line run through Chicago. We have ports and great intermodal facilities. Let's root for the home team.
10/21/2017 06:04:00 PM "
Is that you, Tiny Dancer? All the retail companies that you mentioned are out of the picture. And crime is worse all over the city, including Apple picking in the "nice" neighborhoods.
I think a great location would be in between Chicago and Milwaukee near the Amazon Kenosha facility. There's land available, education resources, highways, affordable housing, a good quality lifestyle and access to O'Hare and Mitchell airports, the latter being a very civilized place with capacity to spare. Makes a lot of sense.
Lots of folks don't realize it but just in the three counties along the lake from Cook to Milwaukee counties there's over a million people. Not exactly Podunk.
I still think it will be Maywood,ill. 24/7 drugs sales liquor stores, weed and gang shooting why not have it all?
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