by Ellen D. Harpel | Feb 11, 2019 | Amazon
Amazon’s proposed 5,000-person Operations Center of Excellence in Nashville was in the news last week with two positive stories. The Metro Council approved $15.2 million in spending for sidewalk, road, sewer, and other utility upgrades for Nashville Yards, the...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Feb 5, 2019 | Amazon
Amazon’s HQ2 raised new challenges for economic developers as they responded to a high-profile, public RFP promising a unique transformational economic opportunity. Our analysis of the HQ2 incentive offers makes clear that economic development organizations have...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Jan 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
The 2018 Menino Survey of Mayors asked 110 US mayors for their opinions on economic development, recruitment competition and financial incentives. 84% stated that “recruiting economic investments with financial incentives is good policy.” 44% believe that incentives...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Jan 14, 2019 | Amazon
We continue our series on the Amazon HQ2 incentive offers with a look at the local agreements, turning this week to New York and Long Island City. This MOU is different from the other local agreements because there is a single, combined state and local document, the...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Jan 7, 2019 | Amazon
We continue our series on the Amazon HQ2 incentive offers by moving on to the local agreements, starting with Arlington, Virginia. What is incentivized Arlington has proposed to provide an annual pay-for-performance grant to Amazon to be funded through the Transit...
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