How Virginia Won Amazon’s HQ2

It was September 2017, just days after Amazon unveiled its HQ2 contest, the nationwide race for a second corporate headquarters, and Moret, the top economic-development official in Virginia, had been scrambling to assemble the Commonwealth’s bid. Using data from 20 distinct categories, the consultants had measured Northern Virginia against cities they considered top contenders and charted each location’s positives (in green) and negatives (in red) on the heat map for Moret. You know the broad outlines of what happened next: On November 13, 2018, Amazon announced it had selected Northern Virginia and, in a since-abandoned arrangement, New York City—two of the most expensive regions in contention.

Source: www.washingtonian.com