Second building for amazon and bidding seems tug of war situation

US from north to south, east to west all metropolises are getting jammed over wooing Amazon, creating scenario of war into favoring Amazon as the site of e-commerce giant’s second headquarters.

New York: A lifetime gain,50,000 well –paid win-win jobs, a $5 million investment one US city gainer all waits with their bid for Amazon headquarters. With Thursday deadline for submission from $7 billion in tax breaks in Newark, New Jersey 50years ago aflame by deadly race riots to giant cactus shipped interstate bids looked from colossally ambitious. As e-commerce giant Amazon announced last month of investing $5 billion in opening HQ2 in North America which will create job opportunity to 50,000 approx. With tens of thousands of spin- off said Jeff Bezos American second richest billionaire worth $85.8billion “we expect HQ2 to be full equal to our Seattle headquarters”. Currently Seattle based company’s  unusual announcement made nationwide competitive up roared  in  the corporates as some America’s most glittering cities New york and Chicago being lesser known backwaters looking to exit oblivion.

Christie a Republican ally of US President Donald trump reached across the increasingly bitter US partisan divide to join forces with Democratic Senator Cory Booker and champion Newark’s chances.” Let any state go and try to beat that package” said Governor Christie supporting Newark’s bid. As part of New York’s metropolitan area Newark gives Amazon preference for place with more than 1million people a business friendly environment and urban or suburban location which will attract and retain strong technical talent.

New Jersey bid with prospect of $5 billion in tax incentive over 10years, $1billion in property tax and wage tax waivers that would give Amazon employees to keep around $1billion of their hard earned money over 20years. With wish list hasn’t stopped lesser contenders resorting in bid to win attention, Atlanta suburb Stone crest, Georgia has offered to surrender 345 acres to create a new city called wait for it Amazon. Mayor Jason Lary told Fox Business that “they have an eternal brand if they create and live in Amazon, their own zip code”.

Alabama Birmingham erected giant replica of Amazon’s distinctive grey shipping boxes downtown business group in Tucson, Arizona with 21-foot cactus and shipped it to Amazon’s Seattle head office. Tweet saying it can’t be gifted as they donated to Desert Museum.

North Carolina and also Indiana specially the city of Gary part of the US Rust Belt where more than a third of the population is believed to live in poverty. The New York Times said in an advertisement” I know locating (to Gary) may seem far-fetched as Gary  didn’t make the top 10 shortlist drawn up by Moody’s Analytics, which put Austin, Texas in pole position, also included Atlanta, Philadelphia, tech hub Pittsburgh, New york metropolitan area and Salt Lake City. Chicago, America’s 3rd largest city also to ensure the competitiveness of the bid, it claimed that it HQ2 would generate $341 billion in total spending including $71 billion in salaries. As everyone is not on moon with Amazon there is also criticism going around though fact not clear.