Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle. Photo by Stuart Isett for the New York Times.

Cities set to bid on future second headquarters

There’s been much stirring and excitement with the announcement by Amazon that they’re looking to open a second headquarters in another North American city where they will hire as many as 50,000 new full-time employees and invest an estimated $3.7 Billion in capital and $25.7 Billion in compensation to employees. This week the company issued an RFP for Amazon HQ2 (Request for Proposals) opening a bidding war in cities across the United States and Canada that are hungry to attract new business and economic investment.