
State, city officials chat with Amazon about HQ2
The talk signals the start of a new, more intense phase of a process that began in September and will likely stretch on for months.
The talk signals the start of a new, more intense phase of a process that began in September and will likely stretch on for months.
Ours is the second most likely city, behind Dallas, to land Amazon’s hotly pursued “second headquarters,” according to a new analysis.
As part of their pitches to Amazon for their $5 billion second headquarters, a number of cities are boasting of their charms in slick videos.
These cities, including Boston, stand the best chance of landing Amazon’s HQ2.
The city’s bid strings together key development properties along either the Orange Line or the planned Green Line extension.
The state has sent the e-commerce giant a roundup of proposals submitted from Massachusetts for the company’s second headquarters.
Some of the sites have not previously gotten much attention as possible locations for the new Amazon headquarters.
You might not have time to read all 218 pages of the bid that Boston submitted to land Amazon’s second headquarters. So here’s a rundown of some of the key points.
Boston’s 218-page pitch leans hard on the region’s intellectual firepower and offers up Suffolk Downs as a site whose ease of development outweighs its distance from the heart of the city.
Shirley Leung
The mayor made the soon-to-be shuttered horse track that straddles East Boston and Revere the prime location for Amazon’s second corporate headquarters in Boston’s pitch to the online giant.
The city’s pitch to bring Amazon’s second headquarters to Suffolk Downs relies in part on transit projects that are not even in the pipeline.
As Boston and Revere bid to bring Amazon to Suffolk Downs, there’s a sense of excitement — but also worry about gentrification and congestion.
Eye-popping incentives by some communities that are trying to woo Amazon could force Boston to sweeten its offer.
Nestor Ramos
Instead of doing much to tout its own misguided plan, New Hampshire devoted an awful lot of space to trashing Boston.
New Hampshire is making an unusual play to lure Amazon’s second headquarters: trashing its southern neighbor.
It could be akin to building a whole new city in Greater Boston — one that is quite large and well-compensated.
A look at Boston’s strengths and weaknesses in several key areas that the company has said are central to how it will decide where to put its second headquarters.
The e-commerce giant has launched a nationwide search for a site for a second headquarters of up to 8 million square feet.
The e-commerce giant said Thursday that it will spend more than $5 billion to build another headquarters in North America.