As city leaders and developers were pouring hundreds of hours into their Port Covington pitch for Amazon’s future second North American headquarters, a neighborhood group was quietly assembling its own application for HQ2.
The Old Goucher Community Association this week submitted a bid to Amazon offering several sites in the middle of the city as candidates for the future behemoth of a corporate campus. Association president Kelly Cross said the application was a completely independent effort assembled by volunteers.
“When we looked at the core preferences that Amazon listed in the [request for proposals], our neighborhood had all of them,” he said.
Amazon closed its application process for HQ2 last night. The Seattle-based company says the corporate campus will bring 50,000 new tech jobs and $5 billion in construction investment to the chosen site.
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