Why Amazon’s Headquarters Should Choose Philadelphia

The city of Philadelphia is among the top 20 shortlist for Amazon HQ2 with other prominent cities. After the Superbowl win, the underdogs may potentially be taking home another win with Amazon’s headquarters. Reporters say that the state of Pennsylvania is offering the massive tech company more than $1 billion in tax incentive for the new headquarters location. The city of Philadelphia had submitted a different bid for a supposed tax release of $2 billion for over 10 years as well. Amazon HQ2 should be thrilled with this opportunity from Philadelphia.

Philadelphia officials had offered three potential sites for Amazon HQ2 that are the Schuylkill Yard, uCity Square in University City, and the Navy Yard in South Philadelphia. Each location has a special advantage to doing business. The Schuylkill Yard is a neighbor to the 30th Street Station in University City. The yard has heavy connections to transit and education centers. While areas of uCity is a pipeline to recruit their talented workforce to massive and respected companies around the area. There are over 9,000 employees and more than 90 companies in technology, energy, medical, and life science around. Amazon’s headquarters will have the perfect site that is in close proximity to just about everything else.

The Navy Yard accommodates more than 13,000 employees from the 150 companies working in the yard. These respectable companies are from the well known businesses including Urban Outfitters, GlaxoSmithKline, tech-startups, research centers, and manufacturers. This business friendly environment will expose Amazon to other companies for support and partnerships.

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Philadelphia ideally captures the North-East region of the nation. The location is perfectly distant to most major cities, only being 75 minutes from New York and 100 minutes from Washington, D.C. by train. The surrounding area outside of Philadelphia is New Jersey, an ideal location for living or a potential pipeline for more business. Every area surrounding Philadelphia are just as innovative and supportive for Amazon’s headquarters.

The surrounding universities that focus on STEM degrees are the notable University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, La Salle University, and Drexel University. There are more colleges that flood the area outside of Philadelphia with Rutgers University – Camden and Rowan University, each offering a pool of diverse workers in business, engineering, technology, and more. The mass selection of young and talented workers are a desired search for businesses, especially for one as massive as Amazon.

Small businesses and agencies within Philadelphia are able share their professional insight to Amazon now. This is why Amazon HQ2 Should Choose Philadelphia:

How will Amazon HQ2 affect the economy of the city?

“It will strengthen a real estate market that has been rising for several years now”. -Bernie Clark Of Majux.

Amazon is searching for talent in software development and related fields. What is your city’s tech scene like?

“Great. We have some really talented people here. I see more people in tech moving from other cities to Philadelphia every day”.-Bernie Clark Of Majux.

How will the community welcome Amazon HQ2?

“I think that depends on what departments Amazon has here. The members of dev and tech departments from other large corporations are very well received”.-Bernie Clark Of Majux.

Do you support the major’s proposal? Why, or why not?

“Yes. It will be great for the amount of talent in Philadelphia”.-Bernie Clark Of Majux.

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Besides financial incentives, what does your city offer?

“Cheap beer and great attitudes. Just don’t tell anyone”.-Bernie Clark Of Majux.

What is in your city that isn’t found anywhere else?

“The attitude”.-Bernie Clark Of Majux.

If you are an agency from Philadelphia, and wish to contribute, please fill out this form here: https://ownersmag.com/need-talk-marketing-pr-agencies-amazon/

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