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The Charlotte Chamber and Charlotte Regional Partnership issued the following statement Thursday after Amazon announced Charlotte was out of the running for their newly proposed headquarters:
“We put our best foot forward in responding to Amazon’s RFP for its HQ2 location and are proud of the proposal we made. As we said from the beginning of this process, whether or not we are selected by Amazon, we will reap significant benefits from the unprecedented regional effort.
Economic development agencies and partners throughout the 16 county Charlotte USA region demonstrated an exceptional level of cooperation, collaboration and teamwork during the process.
As always, we continue to move forward on a number of recruitment projects across our region and expect growing economic success in 2018.”
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Queen City is unfortunately out of the race, as Amazon releases the finalists for its second headquarters.
The tech giant is still looking at 20 potential cities include Atlanta, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Columbus, Ohio, Dallas, Denver, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Miami, Montgomery County in Maryland, Nashville, Newark, New York City, Northern Virginia, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Toronto and Washington D.C.
The company stated it evaluated each of the bids based on proximity to a major airport and ability to attract tech talent.
Amazon also stated it will work with each of these locations to “dive deeper” into their proposals, obtaining more information in order to evaluate how the city could accommodate company’s hiring plans and benefit its workers, as well as the community at large
Last year, Charlotte was one of several cities to make a flashy attempt to attract the company’s attention.
Amazon has said the second headquarters would be a “full equal” to its Seattle campus.
