Toronto is the only Canadian city on Amazon Inc.’s short list of 20 candidates for a second North American headquarters.
The e−commerce giant received 238 applications for the opportunity and says narrowing it down to 20 was very tough.
The other 19 locations it will consider are all in the U.S. and include New York City, Chicago, Los Angeles, Denver and Nashville.
Amazon says it plans to choose the location later this year after diving deeper into the proposals from its top cities.
An Amazon spokesperson says the process taught the company about several new communities across North America that it will consider as locations for future infrastructure investment and job creation.
The company plans to invest more than $5 billion into the forthcoming headquarters and hire 50,000 highly paid employees in the city housing it.
And ppl think rent and real estate prices are high now jeez
Queue the SSM sucks we wasted our money idiots coming to chime in…..
They have all the amenities – government has that controlled by the tax payer.
Gee, what a surprise, NOT!
Not surprised.
Agree
Hmm. I guess my second post got lost in the ethereal nether regions of the interweb…
We knew we fell short of their requirements, but completing the profile was a good exercise for Council and EDC Staff.
Now we need to dredge up some confidence and pride from and for the community.
I guess that they heard that all our young people are moving to Southern Ontario and won’t have enough people to choose from. If they choose Toronto, there go a lot more of our kids.
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