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Related: About this forumPhilly Dodged A 'Prosperity Time Bomb' When Amazon Didn't Pick Us. Will Bunch
It almost seems silly to ask if too much prosperity is a good thing. But did you really want to be standing underneath a "prosperity bomb"? That's the evocative phrase that Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat used to describe the fallout from astronomical housing costs, congestion, and income inequality that come after raining down tens of thousands of six-figure tech jobs on one city, as has happened in Westneat's hometown in the early 21st century.
In an anticlimactic finish to a 14-month spectacle that left virtually no one satisfied, the Godzilla of high tech, Seattle-based Amazon, made it official Tuesday: Its second headquarters and 50,000 eventual high-paying jobs will not only not come to Philadelphia despite a cloying campaign that even plastered itself on Seattle's buses but will instead be divided evenly between Philly's two archrivals, New York City's Queens borough and Washington's suburbs in northern Virginia.
There was a time, maybe 20 years ago, when losing out to NYC and D.C. would have been a fatal blow to Philadelphia's already looking-up-at-the-grass-low civic self-esteem. In November 2018, it wasn't even our city's worst loss of the week a dishonor that goes to Eagles coach Doug Pederson and his sputtering gridiron champs.
Honestly, losing Amazon upon further review feels like a win for Philadelphia, a moment that hopefully we'll look back on as the day that we dodged a bullet, if not that bomb...-MORE.
http://www2.philly.com/philly/columnists/will_bunch/amazon-hq2-philadelphia-pitch-virginia-new-york-20181114.html
Related: What Amazon Was Offered: Helipads, Zoo Tickets: NY, VA, Nashville, Phila, Pgh, Atl, Dallas., The Guardian https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016220148
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)Get it either...look at the Foxconn mess in Wisconsin...
appalachiablue
(42,378 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,862 posts)Pgh and Allegheny County offered free land, including around the old Civic Arena. That development rights for that parcel belong to the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team ownership and part of the deal was residential development to include affordable housing for Hill District residents.