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Liberal mayors will struggle to win Amazon’s $5 billion new headquarters

By Tom Rogan

Published September 7, 2017 7:48pm ET

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Liberal mayors will struggle to win Amazon’s $5 billion new headquarters — In this April 27, 2017 file photo, construction continues on three large, glass-covered domes as part of an expansion of the Amazon.com campus in downtown Seattle. Amazon said Thursday, Sept. 7, that it will spend more than $5 billion to build another headquarters in North America to house as many as 50,000 employees. It plans to stay in its sprawling Seattle headquarters and the new space will be "a full equal" of its current home, said founder and CEO Jeff Bezos. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson) | Elaine Thompson

Amazon announced Thursday that it will build a new headquarters to supplement its existing base in Seattle. The new headquarters, which Amazon calls HQ2, will be located in an American city and is expected to cost $5 billion to build.

Amazon claims that HQ2 will host 50,000 new jobs and that “construction and operation of Amazon HQ2 is expected to create tens of thousands of additional jobs and tens of billions of dollars in additional investment in the surrounding community.”

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