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Originally Posted by Roughneck

Kentucky already got the Amazon air cargo hub this year.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money...-hub/97354612/

Amazon will add 2,700 jobs at new $1.5B Kentucky hub

In the end, the state, Boone County and the airport moved quickly to lock in Amazon, which will receive a $40 million state and local tax incentive and another $5 million from the airport. For its part, Amazon has promised 2,700 new jobs, 600 of which will be full-time. It has entered a lease of at least 50 years with CVG, where Amazon plans to build a hub every bit as impressive as DHL's massive North American hub here.






I don't disagree they know where they want to go and have a shortlist, but the political play here is 'what level(s) of government will give us the best deal to move where they want us.'

I think its such a massive size they get huge leverage for all kinds of political issues they have