Awww....
Amazon announced the 20 finalists for its Headquarters 2 location this morning, and the Rochester-Buffalo area isn't one of them.
From the proposals it received from 238 cities and regions, here's who made the cut, in alphabetical order:
Amazon didn't give reasons for dropping the other 218, but clearly it leaned toward larger metropolitan areas and, in the case of the mid-size cities, toward places with a kind of national buzz.
Amazon announced the 20 finalists for its Headquarters 2 location this morning, and the Rochester-Buffalo area isn't one of them.
From the proposals it received from 238 cities and regions, here's who made the cut, in alphabetical order:
- Atlanta
- Austin
- Boston
- Chicago
- Columbus
- Dallas
- Denver
- Indianapolis
- Los Angeles
- Miami
- Montgomery County, Md.
- Nashville
- Newark
- New York
- Northern Virginia
- Philadelphia
- Pittsburgh
- Raleigh
- Toronto
- Washington, D.C.
Amazon didn't give reasons for dropping the other 218, but clearly it leaned toward larger metropolitan areas and, in the case of the mid-size cities, toward places with a kind of national buzz.