Thursday was the deadline for cities to submit a potential site to Amazon for its upcoming, Apple UFO-like $5 billion new North American headquarters, a secondary hub that the company says will compare in size and scope to its existing Seattle headquarters.
Naturally, Bay Area cities are clamoring to draw company CEO Jeff Bezos’s eye. In all, nine local cities want to attract Amazon with prime real estate, including a coalition of seven cities, dubbed the Northern Arc, who submitted jointly.