Amazon sent waves through the business world on Thursday morning by issuing an RFP for a second headquarters in North America.

From Amazon, “Amazon HQ2 will be Amazon’s second headquarters in North America. We expect to invest over $5 billion in construction and grow this second headquarters to include as many as 50,000 high-paying jobs – it will be a full equal to our current campus in Seattle. In addition to Amazon’s direct hiring and investment, construction and ongoing operation of Amazon HQ2 is expected to create tens of thousands of additional jobs and tens of billions of dollars in additional investment in the surrounding community.”

Amazon’s Seattle headquarters features 33 buildings, 8.1 million sq. ft., 40,000 employees, and 24 restaurants/cafes according to the RFP. Amazon has paid $43 million into the Seattle public transportation and estimates it attracts 233,000 hotel nights by guests visiting Amazon and 53,000 additional jobs as a result of its investment.

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