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Amazon’s home region unveils 522-page bid for its second headquarters, citing ‘historic partnership’

The region where Amazon established its first headquarters just unveiled a pitch to host its second headquarters, as well. “Amazon… Read More

Amazon HQ2 deadline day: Everything you need to know about the biggest headquarters contest ever

At midnight tonight, Amazon will close applications for the most high-profile and high-stakes corporate headquarters competition in history. It has… Read More

Amazon HQ2: Mayors from 7 major North American cities give us their pitches as RFP deadline looms

City leaders across the continent are thinking about how they can best pitch their communities to Amazon as the Thursday… Read More

Seattle mayoral candidate Jenny Durkan says city’s focus on Amazon HQ2 is ‘missing the big story’

For the past month, Seattle’s civic leaders have been trying to make sense of Amazon’s plans to establish a second… Read More

A ‘People’s RFP’: Civic groups demand transparency and worker rights in Amazon HQ2 search

As the deadline for Amazon’s HQ2 request for proposals looms, the company is getting some blowback from community organizers around… Read More

Seattle politicians seek to renew relationship with Amazon in mea culpa letter to Jeff Bezos

Leaders in Seattle and Washington state want to ameliorate the relationship between Amazon and its hometown. That’s the crux of… Read More

Microsoft HQ2? ‘We are very, very happy where we are,’ says CEO Satya Nadella

Amazon’s decision to open a second headquarters equal to its hometown Seattle campuses is largely unprecedented in modern business history,… Read More

Top Amazon exec Jeff Wilke suggests HQ2 won’t be in the Pacific Northwest

Update Oct 11, 2 p.m: Amazon sent GeekWire this statement regarding its HQ2 search: “We will give serious consideration to every HQ2… Read More

Sorry, HQ2 suitors: Wacky stunts aren’t likely to get Amazon’s attention, says top exec Jeff Wilke

Seattle, don’t take Amazon’s search for a second headquarters personally. The company’s CEO of Worldwide Consumer Jeff Wilke said at… Read More

Check out this unique Amazon HQ2 pitch from the football coaches at Michigan and Michigan State

We’ve seen 22-foot tall cactuses and a Georgia city offering to change its name. But football-crazed Michigan is taking a gridiron… Read More

Tacoma, Wash., officially announces Amazon HQ2 bid

Seattle’s neighbor to the south, Tacoma, Wash., formally announced its plans to respond to Amazon’s second headquarters request for proposals… Read More

7 crazy stunts from cities vying for Amazon’s second North American headquarters

With more than 100 contestants in the Great Amazon HQ2 Beauty Pageant, it takes a little more than good looks… Read More

Seattle region unveils pitch to keep Amazon HQ2 close to home — and it doesn’t include any locations in Seattle

Executives from King and Snohomish County revealed details of their plan to convince Amazon to locate its second North American… Read More

A little-known reason why Pittsburgh could have an inside track on Amazon’s HQ2

Pittsburgh was Mister Rogers’ neighborhood, but a couple key connections could make it a front runner to become Mr. Bezos’… Read More

The City of Amazon? Community in Atlanta suburbs offers tech titan its own town

“Welcome to Amazon” is a phrase commonly heard on the tech titan’s Seattle campus but typically reserved for new employees… Read More

Ex-Amazonian: Hyperloop and other next-gen transportation planning could bring ‘HQ2’ to Texas

One of Amazon’s leadership principles is to think big, and that’s exactly what a former Amazon employee is encouraging cities… Read More

Amazon angst dominates Seattle Chamber annual meeting as city leaders make longshot bid for HQ2

A cloud hung over the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce’s 135th meeting on an otherwise unseasonably sunny Thursday in Seattle… Read More

One Eastern Washington city’s unlikely play for Amazon’s second North American headquarters

Spokane is determined not to sit on the bench while other cities duke it out for Amazon’s second corporate headquarters.… Read More

Commentary: A half-dozen implications for Seattle and other cities from Amazon’s HQ2 RFP

[Editor’s Note: This guest commentary by Tren Griffin highlights six implications from Amazon’s request for proposals for a second headquarters. ] 1.… Read More

Can Seattle handle more Amazon? How the tech giant’s first hometown could pursue its second HQ

Last week’s surprise announcement that Seattle will respond to Amazon’s request for proposals for its second North American headquarters raised… Read More

Full text: Seattle mayor directs city to bid on Amazon’s second headquarters

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell dropped a surprise Friday when he announced that one of the key initiatives in his very… Read More

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell directs city to bid on Amazon HQ2, says he won’t remain in role

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has signed an executive order directing Seattle’s economic development officials to respond to Amazon’s request for… Read More

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says state is talking with Amazon about ‘HQ2’ implications

Amazon will no doubt get offers from all over the nation for its second headquarters project, but Washington officials are… Read More

Tech leaders differ over Amazon’s future in Seattle and the logic behind ‘HQ2’

Amazon’s splashy announcement that it plans to build a second North American headquarters has stirred debate across the nation, and that… Read More

Where should Amazon build HQ2? We let the data decide

In the days since Amazon’s big HQ2 announcement last week there has been plenty of speculation about where Amazon should… Read More

Seattle neighbor Tacoma is making a play for Amazon’s second headquarters

Like the overlooked heroine in an ’80s teen movie, Tacoma is writing a love letter to Amazon. It says, in effect,… Read More

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space venture provides hints about Amazon’s HQ2 plan

What do Jeff Bezos and his lieutenants look for when they’re in an expansive mood? That’s a key question in… Read More

Commentary: Amazon and Seattle’s leaders owe it to the region to do better than this, lest we become the next Detroit

[Note: GeekWire’s Todd Bishop is slated to appear on KUOW FM’s The Record in the noon hour today, with Seattle… Read More

A race to the bottom? Amazon stirs debate by soliciting tax credits for second headquarters

Amazon sparked an all-out bidding war this week when it asked North American cities to roll out the red carpet… Read More

Podcast

Week in Geek Podcast: The message Amazon’s HQ2 sends Seattle, and where the tech giant could go next

Amazon surprised everyone Thursday morning when it announced it is looking to build a second headquarters in a city in North… Read More