NATIONWIDE — Amazon has selected 20 cities to move to the next phase in its HQ2 selection process.
The company expects to invest over $5 billion in construction and grow its second headquarters to include as many as 50,000 new jobs.
Its original headquarters in Seattle is said to have invested an additional $28 billion into the city's economy since its opening in 2010.
Finalists include:
- Austin
- Dallas
- Toronto
- Columbus
- Indianapolis
- Chicago
- Denver
- Nashville
- Los Angeles
- Boston
- New York City
- Newark
- Pittsburgh
- Philadelphia
- Montgomery County
- Washington, D.C.
- Raleigh
- Northern Virginia
- Atlanta
- Miami
“In the coming months, Amazon will work with each of the candidate locations to dive deeper into their proposals, request additional information, and evaluate the feasibility of a future partnership that can accommodate the company’s hiring plans as well as benefit its employees and the local community. Amazon expects to make a decision in 2018,” the company says in a news release.