[wastoute]

Amazon is the easiest to take an axe to. To resolve the tax question Amazon should be forced to make a separate facility to service it’s customers in each of the 50 states. A separate facility that is a complete company. (AT&T, Standard Oil).

[Yo-Yo]

HQ2 should be the world's first virtual headquarters, where all of the executive and support staff telecommute and meet in virtual space.

Keep HQ1 for those who must meet face-to-face.

[freedom1st]

I believe Amazon is going to select Miami / South Florida as 2nd Headquarters. Miami is gateway to South America. Bezos went to high school in Miami.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Frankly Pittsburgh is already turning into San Francisco on the Allegheny. The tech industry has brought huge numbers of Millenials with California values to town.

Not your babushka’s shot-and-a-beer blue collar Catholic Pittsburgh anymore.

[FreeReign]

Google, Twitter and all the rest of the high tech giants should just move to DC and be done with it.

They are crony monopolies attached at the hip to big swampy government.

[sphinx]

It would be disappointing but hardly surprising if all the bold talk devolved into the easy default option of yet another suburban office park on the fringe of the current sprawl. This would be a new edge development today but would be absorbed by terminal congestion within 20 years.

I still hope for something better. If Amazon comes to DC, it should locate inside the beltway and hopefully within DC proper. Alternatively, go to a smaller city in flyover country with a good university and people who still cling to their guns and religion.

[faithhopecharity]

wtf does a company need a duplicate HQ for anyway?

[Zathras]

I watched “The Circle” this weekend by Tom Hanks.
Other than the ending which was unbelievable, it could easily be a view of Amazon or FB.

It is all about control

[fella]

D.C. is where their money will buy the most influence.