Houston Unable To Woo Amazon HQ2 Deal

HOUSTON, TX — Local efforts to woo Amazon representatives to bring HQ2 and the promise of 50,000 new jobs to Houston apparently fell flat with the announcement Thursday that the Bayou City didn’t make the cut.

In fact, the only cities in Texas that Amazon is considering for their new HQ2 facility are Dallas and Austin.

Potential suitors in the Houston area included representatives from Generation Park, near Humble.

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Representatives from Generation Park pulled out all the stops in recent months to lure the online retail giant to the Bayou City, and the 4,000 acre mixed use complex in northeast Houston.

In October, representatives from Generation Park announced their plan to meet with leaders at Amazon to discuss the potential move to Generation Park.

Ryan McCord, president of McCord Development, which owns Generation Park, and Mark S. Mitchell, president of the Lake Houston Economic Partnership, each sent letters asking Amazon to consider Generation Park for its new HQ2.

However, Houston is not the initial list.

Amazon received 238 proposals from areas within the continental U.S., as well as other U.S. territories who've expressed an interest in Amazon's presence in their community.

"Thank you to all 238 communities that submitted proposals. Getting from 238 to 20 was very tough – all the proposals showed tremendous enthusiasm and creativity," said Holly Sullivan of Amazon Public Policy. "Through this process we learned about many new communities across North America that we will consider as locations for future infrastructure investment and job creation."
Amazon said in a press release Thursday that it will continue working in the coming months to make a decision before the end of 2018.

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