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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 ...
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 Se...
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, Fac...
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 Airbn...
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 ...
Tech & Startups Callbox Storage to Expand its On-Demand Services to Austin The Grapevine-based startup recently raised $5 million and signed a lease for a new facility in the Hill Country. By Danielle Abril Published in Business & Economy September 8, 2017 9:38 am SMS Just over one year after launching, a Grapevine, on-demand storage startup is expanding its services to Austin after findin...
When it comes to Amazon's search for a city to host its second headquarters, the Indianapolis metro area has some considerable advantages if state and city officials put it in contention. It's also got some weaknesses that might weigh on its stock, business leaders and observers said. The Seattle-based tech giant announced Thursday that it's looking for a city in which to build a se...
SEATTLE-- Amazon said Thursday that it plans to spend more than $5 billion to build a second headquarters in North America to house as many as 50,000 employees. The tech giant plans to stay in its Seattle headquarters, and the new space will be "a full equal" of its current home, said founder and Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos. Amazon's announcement highlights how fast the compa...
Ford Motor Company and Dominos Pizza just announced they’re collaborating on a test project that uses self-driving cars to deliver pizzas to customers. The tests are taking place in Michigan. In April, Waymo, the self-driving car group created by Google, announced a fleet of hundreds of self-driving vehicles would offer free test-rides to people in Phoenix, Arizona. In recent years, Arizona has ...
Few companies can transform a city, but Amazon, the slayer of the retail industry, isn’t just any company. It’s a “City Maker.” In its request for proposals for municipalities to bid to become the home for its second headquarters, Amazon AMZN, +1.21% claims to have done wonders for Seattle, its current home. Here’s how it breaks down the numbers in its request for proposals: • In addit...