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  • State officials gauging how to attract Amazon’s interest for new HQ

    Seattle Times – Business and Technology News

    OLYMPIA — State officials Friday were still working to understand Amazon’s needs and intentions and gauging if the company would be interested in another headquarters elsewhere in Washington. After Amazon’s announcement Thursday morning that it intended to open a second headquarters somewhere in North America, company officials called David Postman, Gov. Jay Inslee’s chief of staff. While no meeting is yet scheduled, Inslee spokeswoman Jaime Smith said the governor intends to sit down with Amazo…

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  • Cool: $140k “Micro-Home” packed with smart home features

    Seattle Bubble

    The video is packed with quite a few obnoxious buzzwords (and some NSFW language) but I do appreciate the concept of this 352-square-foot home. It's produced on an assembly line and can be "installed" in a wide variety of locations and configurations, plus it's loaded with smart home tech and modular designs… The post Cool: $140k “Micro-Home” packed with smart home features appeared first on Seattle Bubble. The video is packed with quite a few obnoxious buzzwords (and some …

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  • Amazon’s HQ2 options: Here’s how the Bay Area stacks up to the most expensive cities for tech companies

    BizJournal – Commercial Real Estate

    Kristen Mosbrucker SVBJ staff Silicon Valley Business Journal Enlarge Related Content Silicon Valley officials get ready to woo Amazon for second HQ What we know about how Amazon negotiates: move fast, play hardball Amazon solicits proposals for $5 billion second HQ in North America Home of the Day Sponsor Listing Breathtaking Estate with Endless Opportunity! See All Homes of the Day Join us on September 21 for Silicon Valley Structures Register Now VIEW SLIDESHOW 35 photos Silicon Valley leader…

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  • When Even Technology Companies Can’t Afford Seattle Anymore

    Redfin Blog

    We never thought it could happen to us. When Boeing announced in 2009 the opening of a new plant in South Carolina instead of Seattle, manufacturing was heading out of Seattle, but technology companies were flooding in: Google opened its first engineering office in 2004, followed by Facebook in 2010, Apple and Dropbox in 2014, Uber in 2015, and Airbnb in 2016. In the past twelve months alone, Facebook announced plans to double the size of its Seattle presence, Google broke ground on a massive ne…

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  • Amazon’s HQ2 options: Here’s how the Twin Cities compare to the most expensive markets for tech companies

    Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal – Local News

    Minnesota is preparing a bid to convince the Seattle-based technology giant to open a new major office in the Twin Cities. Here's what commercial real estate and labor costs across competitor markets were in 2017 for a 50,000-worker office.

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  • Amazon’s H2Q options: Here’s how Nashville stacks up to the most expensive cities for tech companies

    BizJournal – Commercial Real Estate

    Nashville is preparing a bid to incentivize the Seattle-based technology giant to consider opening a new major office in this region. Here's what commercial real estate and labor costs across competitor markets were in 2017 for a 50,000 worker office.

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  • Open thread: Let your Amazon HQ2 feelings out

    Curbed – Seattle

    Thursday, Amazon said that they’d be setting up a second headquarters—and it won’t be in Seattle. The announcement seems like it’s amplified a lot of complicated existing feelings about the online giant and the effect the company’s growth has had on the city’s fabric. That doesn’t mean they’re packing up and leaving anytime soon—“It will be a full equal to our current campus in Seattle,” reads the announcement. But it could mean a slowdown on the company’s stronghold. Their rapid growth means th…

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  • Here are the sites big enough to hold an Amazon headquarters in Pittsburgh

    BizJournal – Commercial Real Estate

    Paul J. Gough Tim Schooley Pittsburgh Business Times Related Content Here's what national media is saying about Pittsburgh's Amazon HQ bid Casey urges Amazon to consider Pennsylvania for second HQ Pittsburgh to compete for Amazon's second HQ Home of the Day Sponsor Listing 1334 Pennsylvania Avenue See All Homes of the Day Join us on October 5 for Corporate Citizenship Awards Register Now Enlarge Where could the Pittsburgh region accommodate the massive size requirements Amazon has…

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  • Airbnb urges housing reform in Berlin after court overturns permit rejection

    TechCrunch – All Stories

    Airbnb is celebrating a partial win over a housing law change in Berlin that last year led to a total clampdown on the short term renting of entire homes to visitors to the city. City authorities had couched the move as a necessary measure to tackle housing shortages affecting locals. While there has been no formal law change, as yet, the latest development blows in a favorable direction for Airbnb. It pertains to a legal challenge brought by a private individual living in the Berlin district of…

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  • Co-working concept Spaces opening at One Renaissance Tower

    AZ Big Media

    Posted September 8, 2017 by AZRE Amsterdam-born workspace pioneer Spaces has selected One Renaissance Tower at 2 N. Central Ave. in downtown Phoenix for its debut in Arizona. Spaces will occupy the 18th and 19th  floors, totaling 39,743 square feet, making it the largest co-working space in Arizona when it opens in December 2017. Kevin Calihan with CBRE’s Phoenix office, negotiated the 13-year lease on behalf of Spaces. The upfront capital investment into the space will exceed $5 million. “Space…

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