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Old 09-07-2017, 05:57 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by Bunk View Post
The criteria in the RFP includes it must be a metropolitan area of over 1,000,000 population.

That only leaves 6 options in Canada

Toronto = Very expensive market office and housing
Montreal = Francophone, Quebec factor?
Vancouver = No space, very expensive housing
Calgary = The best
Edmonton = No Good
Ottawa = Zzzzzz
The no space or expensive housing argument won't really fly since the workers they will hire are the exact people that will buy those expensive houses, and Amazon will obviously build out the space the way they want like they did in Seattle.

Vancouver is probably out because it is so close to Seattle.

Finding 50,000 tech workers is a big ask.
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