Some 20 cities top the list of areas that could be well positions to land the bidding war for Amazon's new U.S. headquarters, bringing 50,000 jobs along with it, according to the Brookings Institution.
Amazon, the world's largest online retailer and fourth largest company by market capitalization, announced a competitive selection process to find its second headquarter to go with its current establishment in Seattle, the Brookings Institution noted.
The company has promised that the jobs it will create will average in excess of $100,000 in compensation and it would "be a full equal to our Seattle headquarters," Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos has said, per Brookings.
The company said last month that it would prefer to open its news digs in a suburb an or urban area with more than 1 million people, where the community "thinks big" and will attract needed technical talent, CNN wrote.
Cities and regional economic development organizations have been invited to submit proposals, CNN noted. The Brookings Institution noted that the population requirement narrows Amazon's search to the top 50 U.S. metropolitan areas, along with Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver in Canada.
Amazon's need for "technical talent" would also suggest that areas that have a highly educated labor force would also have an advantage, the Brookings Institution noted, adding that the cities on its list have those things and the rail transit systems, international airports and baseline connectivity necessary to meet Amazon's demands.
The Brookings Institute list includes:
- Atlanta
- Austin
- Baltimore
- Boston
- Chicago
- Dallas
- Denver
- Detroit
- Houston
- Los Angeles
- Minneapolis-St. Paul
- New York City
- Philadelphia
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- San Jose
- Seattle
- Toronto
- Vancouver
- Washington, D.C.
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