Amazon HQ2 - wikipedia Amazon HQ2 Amazon HQ2 is a proposed new corporate headquarters for online retailer and tech company Amazon in North America, to supplement the existing Seattle headquarters. Amazon announced the initiative, along with a request for proposals from governments and economic development organizations, in September 2017, attracting attention from more than 200 cities in Canada, the United States and Mexico. Amazon intends to have 50,000 workers at HQ2 and is planning to invest $5 billion in new construction. A shortlist of 20 finalists was announced January 18, 2018. Contents 1 Background 2 Requirements 3 Bids 3.1 Submitted 3.2 Withdrawn 4 Finalists 5 Promotional campaigns 6 Analysis 7 Criticism and opposition 8 References 9 External links Background Part of the Amazon headquarters in Seattle, under construction in 2015 Amazon.com was founded in 1994 in Bellevue, Washington, and moved to leased space in the SoDo neighborhood of Seattle. As the company grew, it went through a series of office moves around Downtown Seattle, until announcing a move to a purpose - built headquarters campus in the South Lake Union neighborhood, then a light industrial enclave undergoing urban renewal. As of 2017, Amazon occupies 8.1 million square feet ( 750,000 m ) of office space in 33 buildings, employing 40,000 white collar workers. Requirements Amazon 's request for proposals outlined several core requirements, as well as optional preferences. Metropolitan areas with a population of over 1 million A stable and business - friendly environment Within 30 miles ( 48 km ) of a population center Within 45 minutes of an international airport Proximity to major highways and arterial roads 1 -- 3 miles ( 2 -- 5 km ) Access to mass transit routes Up to 8 million square feet ( 740,000 m ) of office space for future expansion Optional preferences include airports with direct flights to Seattle, New York, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., urban locations, and proximity to major universities. The deadline for Phase I bids was set at October 19, 2017. A final site is planned to be selected and announced in 2018, from a shortlist of 20 cities released in January. Bids Submitted This list is incomplete ; you can help by expanding it. As of October 23, 2017, 238 proposals were submitted and received by Amazon, representing cities and regions from 54 states, provinces, districts, and territories. The only U.S. states that did not have a locality that submitted a formal proposal were Arkansas, Hawaii, Iowa, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont and Wyoming. The Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Saskatchewan also declined to bid, along with the Yukon Territory. Anchorage, Alaska Albany - Rensselaer, New York Atlanta, Georgia ( regional bid ) Atlantic City, New Jersey Austin, Texas Bakersfield, California Baltimore, Maryland ( Port Covington ) Baltimore, Maryland ( Old Goucher / Midtown ) Bensalem, Pennsylvania Birmingham, Alabama Boise, Idaho Boston, Massachusetts Bridgeport and New Haven, Connecticut ( joint bid ) Bristol Township, Pennsylvania Brunswick, Maine Buffalo -- Rochester, New York ( joint bid ) Calgary, Alberta Camden, New Jersey Charlotte, North Carolina Chicago, Illinois Chula Vista, California Cincinnati, Ohio ( joint regional bid ) Cleveland, Ohio College Park, Maryland / University of Maryland ( joint bid ) Columbus, Ohio Dallas -- Fort Worth, Texas ( joint regional bid ) Danbury, Connecticut Delaware County, Pennsylvania Denver, Colorado Detroit, Michigan ( joint international bid with Windsor, Ontario ) Edmonton, Alberta El Paso, Texas ( regional bid ) Enfield, Connecticut Fall River, Massachusetts Foxborough, Massachusetts Fresno, California Gary, Indiana Grand Rapids, Michigan Greenville, South Carolina Halifax, Nova Scotia Hamilton, Ontario Hartford and Stamford, Connecticut ( joint bid ) Hickory, North Carolina Houston, Texas Huntington Beach, California ( joint bid with Long Beach ) Indianapolis, Indiana ( regional bid ) Irvine, California Jacksonville, Florida Jersey City, New Jersey ( Kearny Point complex ) Kansas City, Missouri Kearny, New Jersey Knoxville, Tennessee Langford, British Columbia Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania ( regional bid ) Leominster, Massachusetts Long Beach, California ( joint bid with Huntington Beach ) Los Angeles, California Louisville, Kentucky ( regional bid ) Lowell, Massachusetts Lynn, Massachusetts Marlborough, Massachusetts Memphis, Tennessee Merrimack Valley, Massachusetts Miami, Florida ( regional bid ) Milwaukee, Wisconsin Missouri ( state bid ) Montreal, Quebec Nashville, Tennessee Newark, New Jersey New Bedford, Massachusetts New Brunswick, New Jersey New Hampshire ( state bid ) New York City, New York Northern Virginia ( joint bid between Fairfax and Loudoun counties ) Omaha, Nebraska Ottawa, Ontario ( regional bid ) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Pomona, California ( joint bid ) Portland, Oregon ( regional bid ) Queretaro, Queretaro Raleigh - Durham, North Carolina ( joint regional bid ) Rhode Island Richmond, Virginia Rockdale, Texas Sacramento, California Salt Lake City, Utah San Diego, California San Francisco Bay Area, California ( joint bid ) San Jose, California Santa Ana, California Santa Teresa, New Mexico and San Jerónimo, Chihuahua ( joint international bid ) Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario and Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan ( joint international bid ) Scarborough, Maine Scottsboro, Alabama Seattle, Washington suburbs ( King and Snohomish counties ) Somerville, Massachusetts Springfield, Massachusetts St. Louis, Missouri Stamford, Connecticut Stonecrest, Georgia ( will create a new town named Amazon, Georgia if selected ) Syracuse ( central Mohawk area ), New York Tacoma, Washington Tampa Bay, Florida ( joint bid with Saint Petersburg ) Taunton, Massachusetts Toledo, Ohio ( joint bid with Maumee, Ohio ) Toronto, Ontario ( regional bid ) Trenton, New Jersey Tulalip Indian Reservation, Washington Tucson, Arizona Oklahoma City / Tulsa, Oklahoma Vancouver, British Columbia ( regional bid ) Winnipeg, Manitoba Weymouth, Massachusetts Worcester, Massachusetts Withdrawn Little Rock, Arkansas San Antonio, Texas Finalists Amazon HQ2 final 20 cities On January 18, 2018, Amazon announced its shortlist of 20 finalists for the HQ2 bidding process. The list focuses mainly on the East Coast and Midwest, with Los Angeles as the sole West Coast finalist. Toronto was the only finalist outside of the United States. Atlanta, Georgia Austin, Texas Boston / Somerville, Massachusetts Chicago, Illinois Columbus, Ohio Dallas, Texas Denver, Colorado Indianapolis, Indiana Los Angeles, California Miami, Florida Montgomery County, Maryland Nashville, Tennessee Newark, New Jersey New York City, New York Northern Virginia, Virginia Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Raleigh, North Carolina Toronto, Ontario, Canada Washington, D.C. Amazon began tours of its finalist cities in late February. Bidding cities also signed non-disclosure agreements with Amazon for the duration of the bid process. Promotional campaigns Sun Corridor, a Tucson, Arizona economic development firm, sent a 21 - foot saguaro cactus to Amazon in an attempt to promote the city 's bid. The gift was rejected due to the company 's corporate gifts policy, instead donating it to the Arizona - Sonora Desert Museum. The city of Stonecrest, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta, voted to de-annex 345 acres ( 140 ha ) of land for Amazon to establish its own city named Amazon around its headquarters. Sly James, mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, purchased 1,000 products from Amazon, which he donated to charity. James wrote 5 - star reviews for each one of them, in which every review mentioned positive attributes of Kansas City. Primanti Brothers, a chain of sandwich shops based in Pittsburgh, offered free sandwiches to Amazon employees if they chose the city as their second headquarters. The city of Birmingham, Alabama erected several giant Amazon boxes and dash buttons around public areas. The dash buttons sent out pre-generated tweets to lure Amazon to the city. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that major landmarks in the city would be lit in orange to promote the city 's campaign for HQ2. For one of Canada 's many bids, messages hoping to persuade Amazon to move to Calgary were sprayed onto sidewalks in Seattle 's South Lake Union neighborhood. During an Ottawa Senators hockey game, fans were encouraged to `` make noise '' for the city of Ottawa 's Amazon bid. Contrary to other cities, Little Rock, Arkansas, purchased a full - page ad in the Washington Post `` breaking up '' with Amazon, where they described their decision to not submit a bid, while also touting the city 's positive attributes. A few days after the bid deadline, the campaign flew a banner plane over Seattle with the same message. Analysis The announcement came as a surprise in Seattle, where Amazon is actively expanding their South Lake Union campus and has 40,000 workers occupying almost 20 percent of the city 's office space. Former Seattle Mayor Ed Murray announced that he would begin conversations with Amazon about their long - term plans for the city, while the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce characterized the announcement as a `` wake - up call '' to improve the city 's business climate. Comparisons were made to Boeing 's decision to move their corporate headquarters from Seattle to Chicago in 2001, which came as a surprise to the city but ultimately only affected a few hundred corporate jobs. Moody 's Analytics published an analysis of bidding metropolitan areas and determined that Austin, Texas, ranks highest among Amazon 's criteria, followed by Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Rochester, New York. The New York Times also completed an analysis which found Denver to be the best site based on Amazon 's criteria, followed closely by Boston and Washington D.C. Irish gambling site Paddy Power originally listed Atlanta as the odds on favorite to win HQ2, with 2 - to - 1 odds, but as of January 2018, lists Atlanta and Austin as sharing 3 - to - 1 odds of winning Amazon HQ2. Criticism and opposition Steven Strauss, a visiting professor of public policy at Princeton University and an expert on economic development, in an editorial in USA Today suggested that metropolitan areas should be cautious about bidding too generously to win the Amazon bid. He points to examples where companies have gone bankrupt and / or not followed up on expansion plans, and notes that it is possible cities could over pay ( the so - called `` winner 's curse '' ) in the sense of providing an overly generous incentive package that turns out to be a money losing proposition for the municipality if all the promised jobs do n't materialize. Conservative and liberal advocacy groups voiced their opposition to various tax breaks promised by cities in hopes of luring Amazon. 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Question: when does amazon make a decision on hq2
Answer: 2018