01-18-2018, 08:08 AM
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#781
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Yeah, not at least making the “short” list is a pretty big bummer. We have a lot of work to do.
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01-18-2018, 08:11 AM
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#782
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2016
Location: Alberta
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Originally Posted by Bunk
Yeah, not at least making the “short” list is a pretty big bummer. We have a lot of work to do.
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I don't think amazon is willing to expend political capital by choosing a Canadian City.
I don't think Toronto has a snowballs chance either, but it looks good to put one Canadian city on the list.
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01-18-2018, 08:23 AM
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#783
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Calgary
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"What? They cancelled the naked swim night? Clearly not world class, swap Calgary out for Denver" - Jeff Bezos probably
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01-18-2018, 08:24 AM
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#784
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Franchise Player
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I really feel that Calgary is just too close to Seattle for us to have ever had a realistic shot.
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01-18-2018, 08:27 AM
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#785
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Virginia
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Originally Posted by _Q_
Maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it's interesting that the Washington DC area are on the list three times (DC, Northern Virginia and Montgomery County). Also interesting that Bezos has property in the area.
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Yeah, I always thought that area was a leading candidate too. I think the proposal specifically mentions easy access to DC.
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01-18-2018, 08:29 AM
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#786
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Originally Posted by Ashasx
I really feel that Calgary is just too close to Seattle for us to have ever had a realistic shot.
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I felt the same. Although LA being on the short list is kind of a shock.
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01-18-2018, 08:42 AM
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#787
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#1 Goaltender
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LA is about twice the distance from Seattle? And probably a lot closer to millions of potential customers than Calgary.
I might be the odd one out, but I'm not bothered in the slightest. Logistically it wouldn't make sense regardless of how great Calgary is/was/could be. And I can't even pretend like Amazon isn't already becoming a corporate overlord for most people's lives, selling and shipping tons of #### most people really don't need, the living definition of consumerism.
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01-18-2018, 08:44 AM
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#788
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Calgary
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Why does the HQ2 have to be far away from HQ1? I'd be willing to bet that there will be a lot of travel between the HQ's for various Exec and Management meetings. So maybe travel costs between HQ's will be taken into account as well?
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01-18-2018, 08:48 AM
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#789
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Originally Posted by MrCallahan
Why does the HQ2 have to be far away from HQ1? I'd be willing to bet that there will be a lot of travel between the HQ's for various Exec and Management meetings. So maybe travel costs between HQ's will be taken into account as well?
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Then just expand HQ1?
I feel that regardless of what they decide to do here, Amazon is going to put something on the east coast eventually. To me, it makes more sense to do it now and fill in any sort of gap after, if necessary.
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01-18-2018, 08:50 AM
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#790
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Auckland, NZ
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I'm going to assume this is because Calgary's being saved for HQ3.
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01-18-2018, 08:53 AM
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#791
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Ashasx
Then just expand HQ1?
I feel that regardless of what they decide to do here, Amazon is going to put something on the east coast eventually. To me, it makes more sense to do it now and fill in any sort of gap after, if necessary.
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Real Estate + Resource (people) costs may be more expensive than Calgary real estate, resource, and travel costs.
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01-18-2018, 08:55 AM
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#792
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Franchise Player
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I look at the list and literally almost every one of them makes more business sense than Calgary.
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01-18-2018, 09:02 AM
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#793
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Franchise Player
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It isn't just geography. By greater metropolitan area, those 20 cities are all bigger than Calgary. Most of them are much bigger.
Calgary may punch above its weight, but it really isn't a big city by North American standards.
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01-18-2018, 09:05 AM
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#794
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Franchise Player
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Virginia
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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
It isn't just geography. By greater metropolitan area, those 20 cities are all bigger than Calgary. Most of them are much bigger.
Calgary may punch above its weight, but it really isn't a big city by North American standards.
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Raleigh and Nashville are pretty similarly sized. Pittsburgh and Columbus aren't much bigger.
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01-18-2018, 09:11 AM
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#795
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by jaydorn
"What? They cancelled the naked swim night? Clearly not world class, swap Calgary out for Denver" - Jeff Bezos probably
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I actually think it was the whole rock in the parking lot thing that killed Calgary's bid. Beozos had to be thinking thses driver form part of my potential talent pool.....next please
I can't say I am surprised that the only canadian city to make the list was TO
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01-18-2018, 09:14 AM
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#796
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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Raleigh and Nashville are pretty similarly sized. Pittsburgh and Columbus aren't much bigger.
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But they're in densely populated regions. Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill has over 2 million people. Nashville metropolitan area has 1.75 million, and is growing rapidly. Greater Pittsburgh has 2.3 mil. Greater Columbus over 2 mil.
People in Western Canada maybe don't realize that what we have here - cities surrounded by essentially unpopulated hinterlands - is not the norm in the older parts of the continent, where cities flow into one another in unbroken built up areas.
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01-18-2018, 09:50 AM
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#797
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Franchise Player
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Thanks Nenshi, Notley, and Justin.
Oh, and Westbrook mall too!
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01-18-2018, 09:59 AM
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#799
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Franchise Player
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i'm going to go to Chapters and buy something tonight.
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01-18-2018, 09:59 AM
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#800
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Somewhere down the crazy river.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Northendzone
I actually think it was the whole rock in the parking lot thing that killed Calgary's bid. Beozos had to be thinking thses driver form part of my potential talent pool.....next please
I can't say I am surprised that the only canadian city to make the list was TO
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I wonder how that rock is doing now. Has it flipped any more cars lately?
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