Come on downnnnnnnnnn! You could be the lucky winner of a new Amazon headquarters, complete with $5 billion in investment, 50,000 “high-paying jobs,” and plenty more economic development.
Amazon announced on Thursday that it’s soliciting proposals for “HQ2″— Amazon’s second headquarters and its first outside of its Seattle home.
The weirdly public announcement appears meant to stir up publicity and bids while also making the case that Amazon is a public good. Amazon is currently on its way to taking over much of downtown Seattle, which has undoubtedly brought economic development but also gentrification along with it.
