[Roughneck]

Originally Posted by New Era

Did you miss what Amazon does? Did you miss what several of the requirements are about?

They're building a second HEADQUARTERS. They aren't building a warehouse. They're looking for access to transportation to move people around that run the global business.

What do they need shipping for when web servicing is their most profitable and probably most important branch?

Not in the top 50 metropolitan areas in North America. (STRIKE)

Where was that a requirement? If they wanted to cap requirements at a Top 50 metro they would have made the minimum 2 million people.

Based on the slumping Calgary economy? Not really. Calgary's reliance on a single industry makes it subject to wild fluctuations in the economy and human resource availability.

Still pretty business friendly and despite the significant of the downturn is still pretty stable even without double-meat subs being tossed around.

Okay, that's pretty generic, but I will give you a mark on that one. But how does Calgary differentiate itself from other metro centers in North America in this regard? Does Calgary make the top 10? The top 25? The top 50?




Okay, again, that's pretty generic. But how does Calgary differentiate itself from other metro centers in North America in this regard? Does Calgary make the top 10? The top 25? The top 50?


Okay, again, that's pretty generic. But how does Calgary differentiate itself from other metro centers in North America in this regard? Does Calgary make the top 10? The top 25? The top 50? Seriously, you have to start finding something that Calgary is top of the charts in. So far the city is well down the list.

So we've gone from 'not having any of the requirements' to 'not in the top NA cities' which is pretty much what people have been saying before you came in on your high, salty horse telling people to read the requirements when you seem surprised about how generic they are?

Did you even read them?

And Calgary International is not a very good airport. Does it compare to the big cargo handlers?

Again, they're not building a distribution centre.

Guess what other airport is conspicuously missing from the list yet managed to be a suitable site: Seattle.

Most importantly, how close is it to the main arteries that service most of Amazon's customers? It's hundreds of miles away from a main artery that services any of Amazon's primary market.

For the love of...

What site? Calgary doesn't meet the minimum requirements for the site.

Downtown vacancy rate has loads of options to provide them the square footage they need to get started. A downtown multi-building campus is what they have in Seattle (again, where they aren't a distribution centre and don't care about shipping and cargo capacity).

Calgary falls short here. In fact, Walmart had to build a 400,000 sq ft space in Balzac to meet their warehouse needs.

I don't know if I mentioned it, but they aren't building a warehouse, they don't need a warehouse, this isn't meant to be a distribution hub.

Do you think they're advertising for 50,000 $100K+ jobs for people working in a warehouse?

Did you actually read the requirements for the RFP?

Do you have anything constructive to bring to the discussion at all?

-Total Square Foot Requirement Up to 8,000,000 Sq. Ft. Beyond 2027 (not many cities wouldn't make themselves be a CHECK with this)

You have this one right. Not many industrial parks have this much space available. This is a select few, and probably limited to New York/New Jersey, Houston, Los Angeles, Memphis, and a couple deep water ports on the east coast.

New York would likely be a city not in the running due to their development costs to provide the space required.

And that's just it, Calgary is not blowing away the competition, not even the Canadian competition. There are dozens of sites better south of the border and not needing to deal with the hassle of crossing the border with goods.

You don't even know what they're building and you came roaring into the thread telling other people to stop talking about it.

Just go away.