SEATTLE—Already domiciled at an 8.1-million-square-foot campus in its hometown of Seattle, Amazon is looking for a second headquarters city. The world's largest online retailer on Thursday said it expects to spend $5 billion building Amazon HQ2 somewhere in North America, and ultimately employ up to 50,000 people there.
To that end, Amazon has issued a Request for Proposals to local and state governments interested in learning more about how they might vie for the headquarters location. The company made it clear that HQ2 would be a full-fledged headquarters, rather than a satellite office.
“We expect HQ2 to be a full equal to our Seattle headquarters,” says Amazon's founder and CEO, Jeff Bezos. “Amazon HQ2 will bring billions of dollars in up-front and ongoing investments, and tens of thousands of high-paying jobs. We're excited to find a second home.”
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