CLEVELAND -- Bummer.
Cleveland campaigned to bring Amazon’s second headquarters to Northeast Ohio, but the attempts were unsuccessful.
Amazon has narrowed their list of locations that could be home to their second headquarters -- and Cleveland is not one of them.
Columbus, however, did make the list of 20 remaining candidates.
"In the coming months, Amazon will work with each of the candidate locations to dive deeper into their proposals, request additional information as necessary, and evaluate the feasibility of a future partnership that can accommodate our hiring plans as well as benefit our employees and the local community," Amazon officials said. "We expect to make a decision in 2018."
238 locations submitted proposals. Here are the top 20 finalists:
- Atlanta, Georgia
- Austin, Texas
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Chicago, Illinois
- Columbus, Ohio
- Dallas, Texas
- Denver, Colorado
- Indianapolis, Indiana
- Los Angeles, California
- Miami, Florida
- Montgomery County, Maryland
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Newark, New Jersey
- New York City, New York
- Northern Virginia, Virginia
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Raleigh, North Carolina
- Toronto, Canada
- Washington, D.C.
CLICK HERE to read Amazon's criteria in selecting its next location.
"We expect to invest over $5 billion in construction and grow this second headquarters to include as many as 50,000 high-paying jobs. It will be a full equal to our current campus in Seattle. In addition to Amazon's direct hiring and investment, construction and ongoing 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."
Amazon estimates that every dollar they've invested in Seattle from 2010-2016 has generated an additional $1.40 for the city's economy overall.
The company currently has more than 540,000 employees worldwide.