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Find Out Why Amazon Will Move HQ2 to Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex

Posted by Mike Askins on Saturday, February 3rd, 2018 at 11:48am.

Dallas Fort Worth a Top Tier Location Choice for Amazon HQ2The only remaining question regarding Amazon is where they will move HQ2? Well, Let me try and clear that up for you, Dallas Fort Worth style.

Having lived in the DFW Metroplex since 1979, I have seen the Metroplex explode forward as a business mecca, and if Amazon moves here, they will be able to integrate with the minimum of fuss, due to the accommodative nature of local governments, workforce capacity, and the business community.

When you look at Amazon's "real" location choices it becomes clear, that DFW, also known as America's largest centrally located inland metropolitan area within the United States, and according to the Wall Street Journals recent article, the number one location choice for Amazon's HQ2, is holding a great poker hand.

More than any other location in the United States, DFW is recognized as a pro-business power-house, perhaps the affordable version of Silicon Valley. DFW's strength, unlike various U.S. locations with a higher cost of living issues, is in its ability to supply local talent as well as attract outside human resources. While no single location, can offer the perfect all-purpose turn-key solution, Amazon is a profit-motivated business, looking for the best possible "location fit" that can support HQ2's profitability needs, and that is why DFW is at the top of the list

When you consider DFW's more accommodative governments, high tech workforce, modern highways, international air hub options, developed infrastructure, plus millions of acres of available land to expand, it will be difficult to justify a location that would offer increased business challenges and costs. DFW gives Amazon their best overall business "fit" to get HQ2 operational quickly and efficiently.

In general terms, the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex offers Amazon's HQ2 the Following Key Business Benefits:

  • ample affordable land in various DFW location
  • Cutting Edge Modern Cities, like the Frisco-Allen-McKinney-Plano Corridor with large land parcels that offer "build-to-suit" possibilities
  • necessary city infrastructure resources to easily accommodate HQ2
  • a mission critical "Central United States Location" for cost-efficient air delivery operations
  • Weather! DFW offers an ideal Pro-Business year-round climate that can keep heavy jets flying and business humming
  • an ever-expanding educated high-tech and IT workforce
  • ability to easily attract external talent and relocate them due to a generally favorable cost of living and climate factors
  • a developed and expanding high technology-based economy
  • Texas has a major energy production economy with generations of in groud resources
  • Texas has it's own Electric Power Grid
  • established high technology Telecom Corridor
  • various Semiconductor Manufacturing facilities
  • major Military and Aerospace Technology Contractors
  • Apple Computer Relocating its Celluar / Mobile Phone Research to Sherman in Northern DFW/ Grayson County
  • a centrally located massive DFW International Airport within reach of numerous DFW locations within ~ 30 minutes
  • a choice of secondary Heavy Jet Ports at Alliance Field, McKinney, and Denison (Collin County Looks Good Here!)
  • a high capacity modern superhighway infrastructure
  • a high-tech internet/ communications Infrastructure with many locations using 1 GB in-ground fiber optic
  • an assortment of Local State Colleges, Universities, Junior Colleges and trade schools
  • generally, affordable housing compared to other major competing Amazon Metropolitan Locations
  • ability to Expand New Housing in 6-12 months from 100's of DFW area master-planned communities
  • ability to absorb Amazon's housing demands without making real estate too expensive
  • Texas is known for BIG, adding a Massive Warehouse and Technology Super Center, would be just one more bragging point for Texas
  • Available and affordable LAND for Amazon employees. For example, should Amazon move to Collin County, many employees can find cheap housing in Northern Collin County and Grayson County, in addition to affordable acreage.
  • LOWER TAXES - View DFW Property Tax Rates.
  • no State Income Taxes
  • Texas has an exciting Future

DFW Offers Many Large City Lifestyle Accoutrements 

DFW offers a number of Performing Arts Centers, Museums, Concert Halls, Professional Sports Teams for all major sports, Minor League Baseball, Basketball and Hockey, recreation facilities of all stripes, 100's of affordable Public Golf Courses, Trendy Town Centers, Parks with sports fields, Softball Complexes, Shops, Malls, 1000's of Restaurants and a Cluster of Cities from A-Z all ready to be discovered, and all with their own individual Texas charm. There is so much to do around the Metroplex that it would take most people a decade or more to visit it all, and then there is the Amazing outer DFW Countryside waiting to be discovered. View DFW City Directory to learn more.

And you can even add Willie Nelson! He's out there somewhere!

I believe Amazon will announce their HQ2 move to Dallas Fort Worth, perhaps Collin, or Denton County, but time will soon tell and honestly, I do like our chances.

 

Resource Information About The Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex (DFW). DFW Ranks 10th in Global Competitiveness, if DFW Economy were its own State, More Over, San Fransisco: Dallas Tops Our List of the Best Cities for Jobs in 2017, Dallas Fort Worth has top 2 Spots based upon 5 Year Economic Plan, Dallas Fort Worth Economy Through Charts, DFW's booming population growth blows past the rest of the country, Texas is No.2 for Fortune 500 Companies topping California, 2017 List of DFW's Top 150 Public Companies,

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Amazon Photo, Copyright DFW Map Courtesy of FortWorth.com

Mike Askins

Mike Askins, Realtor, Owner ARG, 20 Years of Client Services
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