The city of Huntsville is seeking to bring Amazon's new headquarters to north Alabama.

Kelly Schrimsher, the city's director of communications, confirmed to AL.com on Thursday that Huntsville will be submitting a proposal to land the megadeal that's expected to produce up to 50,000 jobs.

Schrimsher said city officials would not comment further on the proposal, which she said is standard operating procedure for the city on any such proposal project.

Huntsville will become the second Alabama city to jump into the Amazon sweepstakes. Birmingham announced last month that it would also submit a proposal.

Mobile will not be submitting a proposal, Leigh Perry-Herndon of the Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce told AL.com on Thursday.

"It was decided Mobile did not meet the criteria Amazon required and our resources would be better spent on other projects," Perry-Herndon said in a statement.

Amazon, the worldwide online shopping retailer based in Seattle, is doing some shopping themselves for a second headquarters. And the prospects for the project would appear to be appealing to any city that could meet the specifications. Those 50,000 jobs, for example, would have an average annual salary of more than $100,000, according to the Amazon request for proposal.

The new headquarters would also come with $5 billion in capital expenditures. And in Seattle, where about 40,000 people work at the Amazon HQ, another 50,000 jobs have been created in the city with additional investments of about $38 billion, according to Amazon.

According to the RFP, Amazon has a preference for:

Metro areas with more than one million people.

A stable and business-friendly environment.

Urban or suburban locations with the potential to attract and retain strong technical talent.

Communities that think big and creatively when considering locations and real estate options.

Requirements for cities, according to the RFP, include a facility within 30 miles of the population center, as well as proximity to an international airport and major highways.

If the 1,200-acre TVA megasite in Huntsville-annexed Limestone County is an ideal site, the Amazon facility would be close to a major highway in I-565 and the Huntsville International Airport.

The RFP also requires mass transit - via rail, train, subway or bus service - to the facility site. That would be a requirement Huntsville would have to address if it is selected.

Downtown Huntsville Inc. has also lobbied Amazon to consider Huntsville.

"Basically, we took humans to the Moon and now we're preparing them for Mars," Downtown Huntsville said in a Facebook post. "That's why we think #CitySkill matters more than #CitySize."

Dear Amazon.com, We know we're smaller than your priority city size but we think #DowntownHuntsville could make for a... Posted by Downtown Huntsville, Inc. on Thursday, September 7, 2017

The deadline for proposals is Oct. 19 and Amazon said in the RFP that it plans to choose a site next year.

Birmingham is urging residents to take pictures of three giant Amazon boxes located around town to help send a message to the retailer about the Magic City's interest. A Georgia city has even offered to rename the site for the new headquarters "Amazon."

AL.com reporter Lawrence Specker contributed to this report.