Why is Amazon negotiating/receiving offers from outside the gov't? Seems odd.
They could pick a specific city and the city council could say "hell no" or just be unable to pass legislation to deliver on it.
They could pick a specific city and the city council could say "hell no" or just be unable to pass legislation to deliver on it.
Any city that can't pass (or force through) favorable legislation isn't one that Amazon would want to choose long-term anyway, especially viewed in the context of their relationships with local governments in Seattle [0]. The key point here is that this is a descriptive feature that's hard to ask about, but easy to test for.
0: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogervaldez/2018/07/31/good-new...
Speaking of Cupertino, right near there, a huge battle to allow I think 1,000 units replacing a dead shopping mall. All the usual complaints of traffic.
So 1000 apartments would have intolerable traffic, but 25,000 people in one building won't, seemed to be the argument.