Cities dream of wooing Amazon, but is it worth it?
The pitches have been quirky, some might even say desperate. City officials across North America are trying to get Amazon's attention in hopes that the ...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: But first: Amazon is searching for a place to build a second headquarters. The scale of the project is massive. It comes with a proposed eight-million-square-foot campus that would cost $5 billion and promise up to 50,000 new jobs. As economics correspondent Paul Solman reports, that's created an unprecedented bidding war between cities and states. It's part of his weekly series, Making Sense, which airs every Thursday. MAN: Hey, Alexa, where should Amazon locate HQ2? WOMAN: Hmm. In Frisco, Texas. PAUL SOLMAN: City officials across North America have come up with quirky, some might say desperate, ways of getting the attention of Amazon, the country's fourth largest company. Birmingham, Alabama, boosters built giant delivery boxes around the city. Southern Arizona ...
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JUDY WOODRUFF: But first: Amazon is searching for a place to build a second headquarters. The scale of the project is massive. It comes with a proposed eight-million-square-foot campus that would cost $5 billion and promise up to 50,000 new jobs. As economics correspondent Paul Solman reports, that's created an unprecedented bidding war between cities and states. It's part of his weekly series, Making Sense, which airs every Thursday. MAN: Hey, Alexa, where should Amazon locate HQ2? WOMAN: Hmm. In Frisco, Texas. PAUL SOLMAN: City officials across North America have come up with quirky, some might say desperate, ways of getting the attention of Amazon, the country's fourth largest company. Birmingham, Alabama, boosters built giant delivery boxes around the city. Southern Arizona ...
