Posted on 03/05/2018 8:23:03 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Another day, another Amazon HQ2 analysis. This time, researchers at Hamilton Place Strategies, an analytic PR consultancy, crunched the numbers and found Washington, D.C. the most likely city to land Amazon’s massive second headquarters.
HPS looked at 11 metrics in four categories — transportation; education; business, lifestyle, and culture; connectivity — for 19 of the 20 cities on Amazon’s short list. HPS did not include Toronto in its analysis due to a lack of uniform data between the U.S. and Canada.
Washington, D.C., earned the top spot on HPS’s report because of its mass transit system, educated workforce, above average livability and diversity, and network connectivity.
Boston came in second, buoyed by its universities and educated workforce. HPS picked North Virginia third based on the same metrics.
Analysts have been trying to predict where Amazon will locate its $5 billion second headquarters and the 50,000 jobs it will support ever since the company announced the project last fall. Amazon stoked the prediction fire last month, announcing that the competition had narrowed to 20 cities.
D.C. immediately became a favorite at that time, as the only metro region with three cities on the list. The district itself, Northern Virginia, and Montgomery County all made the cut. Plus Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post, and a $23 million home in D.C., another sign of the tech mogul planting roots in the nation’s capital.
But Amazon is unpredictable and loves subverting expectations. For that reason, even the most data-driven HQ2 analysis must be taken with a grain of salt.
Low cost of living, low crime, little traffic—perfect if you are a Bozo!
amazon @ the swamp!
“Culture” in Washington DC? Maybe if you are an Obama, Clinton, Holder or Lynch; or maybe if you are nomenklatura, an apparatchik or a member of the kleptocracy. Otherwise, not so much.
Those CA folks probably think the DC area / NVa *IS* low cost of living.
As a resident of the Atlanta area, I’d prefer we not win it and bring their attitudes here.
What an outrageously stupid decision. All the Government drones totally destroy any concept of efficient travel now. I can’t imagine adding tens of thousands of Amazon employees to the mix.
I live in north central Maryland. If I’m in Northern Virginia, I have to hit the road around 2:30 pm to have any hope of getting home before 7:30
....easier to track consumers activities this way....names and addresses..
Good, they can hire all of the bureaucratic apparatchiks that are leaving the Federal government. That will be fun to watch.
“Diversity” is part of the criteria. DC is 80% black from what I understand.
That ethnic demographic has changed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Washington,_D.C.
49% black, 44% white, 7% other.
Those CA folks probably think the DC area / NVa *IS* low cost of living.
As a resident of the Atlanta area, I’d prefer we not win it and bring their attitudes here.
I have to agree with you on that...I hope we don’t get Amazon here in Atlanta.
If this is an example of data driven then common sense still wins over data driven.
What utter malarkey. The crime in DC...not mentioned.. the traffic congestion...not mentioned...housing cost..oops.
The cost of the real estate to build and the cost of labor.
Many of the factors they considered are a latte drinking pajama wearing Liberal pipe dream. Are there several nonstop flight to Seattle daily? How many people are flying back and forth weekly, monthly, quarterly? This is a bigger factor than all the above? Diversity...spare me.
Overall mass transit score..another Liberal shrine to kneel before. How about picking a spot where it’s not so crowded that people will have to commute for an hour or more by mass transit to get to work from where they can afford to live. Mass transit is next to impossible for a family with young children where both parents work.
Why are they creating a nightmare for all the people that live in the DC Metro area by adding all that traffic? In another area they could be a beneficial addition to the community and bring needed jobs. The money saved by building & living outside a congested metropolitan area could buy time on a corporate jet at a local airport for nonstop flight time to Seattle or abroad.
As if traffic in the region doesn’t already suck enough.
AMAZON is positioning itself as the 4th arm of government.
Washington, D.C., doesn’t have any airports, so how can it have more direct international destinations than anyplace else?
“HPS looked at 11 metrics in four categories — transportation; education; business, lifestyle, and culture;”
Culture? Pure leftist. It’s where they belong. Might as well keep all swamp critters in the same swamp. It’s like keeping Californians in Kalifornia.
But for the host of reasons others have already posted (transportation nightmare, high cost of living, high crime etc) this is really stupid.
RE: Washington, D.C., doesn’t have any airports, so how can it have more direct international destinations than anyplace else
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What about the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport?
Prime location
Miami scores highest in diversity and lowest in education.
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