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LePage Years: Part Three: Why Maine is the Winner in Losing the Amazon Headquarters Contest

LePage Years Part One Lepage years Part Two In 2018, Amazon was looking for a location for new headquarters In an  article by Wharton University, Management, it is speculated that Amazon knew all along where their new headquarters would be located: . .. Amazon received 238 proposals by the October 19 deadline from big cities like Boston, Chicago and Atlanta; smaller hip cities like Austin and Portland; gritty, nouveau-hip sites like Detroit and pre-hip Camden, N.J. (where the slogan is “Experience the Rebirth!”): regional bids like ones from Central Indiana or a three-city package in Missouri; and Northeast hopefuls betting on proximity to the corridors of power, like Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington, D.C  T he Headquarters Checklist: How do Companies Pick a Location - Wharton University In November 2018, Amazon chose a cit y for its new location - New York, New York. awarding the biggest to the biggest. Is this a surprise? New York has a great energy for ideas and colla