America Bids on Amazon
More than a year after Amazon released its HQ2 RFP and weeks after it announced the winners, a majority of #AmazonHQ2 bids submitted to the company are still not public. MuckRock and other news outlets obtained many of those that are through public records requests - we break down what has and hasn’t been released.
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Arizona
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
- Washington (plus the city’s incentives pages)
Florida
Georgia
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Atlanta (maybe do RFP2 documents too)
Illinois
Indiana
Maine
Maryland
Michigan
- Detroit, in partnership with Windsor, Ontario, Canada. (Document begins at the bottom of the PDF, not the top)
Massachusetts
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Marlborough (Joint proposal with Northborough, Westborough and Southborough)
Missouri
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
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Salem County (plus the supplemental document)
New York
North Carolina
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Greensboro (Released to the Triad Business Journal and described in their coverage, but not released publicly online afterward.)
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
Tennessee
Texas
Washington
Wisconsin
Canada
Alberta
British Columbia
Manitoba
Nova Scotia
Ontario
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New York City releases its winning #AmazonHQ2 bid
New York City released its winning #AmazonHQ2 bid Monday night, the Wall Street Journal reported. The city launched a website dedicated to the new headquarters where it released the bid, the appendix with site details, the memorandum of understanding between the state, city, and Amazon, plus other documents and general information.
#AmazonHQ2 and transparency: An ongoing post-mortem
More than a year after Amazon released its HQ2 RFP and weeks after it announced the winners, a majority of #AmazonHQ2 bids submitted to the company are still not public. MuckRock and other news outlets obtained many of those that are through public records requests - we break down what has and hasn’t been released.
Pittsburgh circuit judge rules city’s #AmazonHQ2 proposal as public record, demands its release
Less than two months before the deadline Amazon gave itself to announce its second headquarters location, a Pittsburgh judge decided the city’s #AmazonHQ2 proposal documents are not “trade secrets” protected from FOIA requests - a common exemption claimed by cities nationwide that have denied to release bid documents.
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Paxtyn Merten sent this request to the Virginia Economic Development Partnership of Virginia
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Paxtyn Merten sent this request to the Fairfax County Office of Public Affairs of Fairfax County, VA
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Paxtyn Merten sent this request to the North Andover Town Clerk of North Andover, MA
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