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While Edmonton didn’t land on Amazon’s short list for a second North American headquarters, it still benefited from making a bid, the city’s head of economic development says.

“This was a proposal that brought our whole community together in very short order,” Brad Ferguson, president of the Edmonton Economic Development Corp. (EEDC), said Thursday.

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“We hunted as a pack and were able to give a very credible proposal to them.”

Toronto is the only Canadian city out of 238 applications that made the shortlist. The remaining candidates are vying for a development the e-commerce giant says will involve up to 50,000 jobs and $5-billion worth of capital investment over 15 to 17 years.

Ferguson, who will support Toronto as Amazon works toward a final decision later this year, wouldn’t release details of the proposal.

He said that’s not done with other projects on which EEDC works with partners and he doesn’t want people to expect it.