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    • Nashville may not have gotten HQ but Amazon is opening a logistics hub with 5,000 jobs in the city

    by Blake Farmer
    Nov 29, 2018
    Among all the buzz surrounding Amazon’s HQ2 announcement, the city of Nashville received a sort of consolation prize — a logistics hub with 5,000 high-paying jobs. Those watching Amazon’s ambitions in health care see potential for the hub to double as a lab for experimentation. Nashville is home to the largest hospital companies in the nation […]
    Derrick Brutel
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    So you lost Amazon's HQ2. How are you feeling?

    by Leila Goldstein
    Nov 15, 2018
    Officials are relieved and bitter after the online retailer's big announcement.
    The Crystal City area of Arlington, Virginia, was one of the winners in the contest for Amazon's HQ2.
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    What will Amazon HQ2 mean for rents in Long Island City?

    by Marielle Segarra
    Nov 13, 2018
    Residents fear the area will become unaffordable.
    A view of the waterfront of Long Island City in the Queens borough of New York, along the East River.
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    Amazon's HQ2 may be “the best thing that didn't happen”

    by Erika Beras
    Nov 13, 2018
    What cities learn from competing can be a win.
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    What's in those Amazon HQ2 bids? It's not entirely clear

    by Renata Sago and Leila Goldstein
    Nov 6, 2018
    Chambers of commerce and public-private partnerships have led the way on bids with limited disclosure requirements.
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    Amazon might be splitting the baby in two

    Nov 6, 2018
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    Amazon wants tax incentives, Texas knows the drill

    by Mitchell Hartman
    May 3, 2018
    As Amazon considers locations for its second headquarters, incentives are on the table.
    Toyota was offered more than $50 million in financial incentives and tax abatements from the Texas Enterprise Fund and the city of Plano to move its North American headquarters to Plano, above.
    Courtesy of Amanda Roark/Toyota
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    New York's wealthy balk at the new tax law

    by Ryan Kailath
    Jan 9, 2018
    They pay half of the city's income tax revenue. Now that they can't deduct it, some may leave.
    At age 71, Diane Gilman finally got her dream penthouse on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
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    Diners aren't showing up as expected near Amazon HQ1, causing some restaurants to close

    by Anna Boiko-Weyrauch
    Jan 2, 2018
    Amazon's HQ1 neighborhood empties out at night, so some restaurant owners aren't finding the dining market they expected.
    Empty chairs in the recently closed bar, Cantine in Seattle's South Lake Union, look out at neighborhood workers with lunch takeout containers. The bar and several other restaurants closed this year because of lackluster dinner patronage.
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    How much are 50,000 Amazon HQ2 jobs worth?

    by Mitchell Hartman
    Oct 17, 2017
    Call it “enticing” or “incentivizing.” Call it “begging” or “groveling.” What’s clear is the bidding war between cities and states to host Amazon’s second national headquarters is racing to its deadline Thursday. The offers of tax incentives, subsidies, favorable zoning, job training and all the rest are piling in. A few billion here, a few […]
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