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Originally Posted by Northendzone
I wonder if 50,000 is some kind of projection based on amazon hitting/surpassing it's growth targets.
seems the place in Miami fell short of the projections.
based on figures quotes for imperial and the pentagon above - it would seem that you need about 275 sq ft per employee (apple seems to be closer to 200 sq ft) - so that gets you close to 14,000,000 sq feet - so something about 15 times the size of imperial.
that would be almost a city within a city.
after reading the articles about working at amazon, and thinking about the deal amazon will likely strike to deliver HQ2 to the winning city I find the company somewhat unattractive. although I am assuming that they likely deliver millions/trillions/gazillions in charity and other spinoff benefits to their communities - them really seem like they are willing to suck everything out of their people and communities.
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For sure. Even though smaller communities with tougher times have nothing to lose by offering them a home in their city, the bigger cities have a lot to lose if Amazon isn't the future of online retail. It's great that they can offer so much to a city's economy, but if that economy becomes dependent on them, and they begin to push their weight politically, it can become a problem. An already healthy world class city like Toronto would become hugely dependent on the Amazon economy, and I would really hate to see what happens if the company fails in the future and what that would do for any city that wins that bid.