City of Hamilton Amazon HQ2 bid heads off to Seattle

HAMILTON, ON - October 19, 2017 -  The City of Hamilton’s robust HQ2 bid is on its way today to Amazon’s Seattle headquarters. Hamilton’s comprehensive bid, developed on time and budget, demonstrates Hamilton is where Amazon should invest its $5 billion dollars in capital expenditures and estimated 50,000 jobs over the next ten to 15 years.

Hamilton’s bid highlights the key assets and attributes of the city and region: a location with high connectivity to transit and goods transport, an excellent and affordable quality of life, a vibrant arts, culture and culinary scene, world class health-care and education and ready access to a highly educated and skilled labour force.

Bids for Amazon’s HQ2 are due today to Amazon, which has signalled it will be making a decision in 2018.

“This kind of economic development opportunity is perfectly timed with the continual emergence of business and creative transformation underway in the City of Hamilton. The work that's been done for this bid will provide long-term benefit to our community helping to leverage future investment, employment, prosperity and growth." -  Mayor Fred Eisenberger

Quick facts

From the City of Hamilton’s Amazon HQ2 proposal:

• Hamilton has a distinctive and dynamic arts, music scene and homegrown neighbourhood festival
• 2.3 million people live within a 48-kilometre radius of downtown Hamilton
• Hamilton offers high connectivity to multi-modal transit, including 90 minutes or less to three international airports
• Our city’s economy ranks as the most diversified in Canada, and Ontario is the largest economy in Canada
• Hamilton is at the centre of this region’s 23 research universities and technical colleges – the largest cluster in Canada
• Hamilton’s bid received support from neighbouring partners, the City of Burlington and the Region of Niagara, and various other community partners

Additional resources

• Amazon RFQ
• WELCOME TO UNSTOPPABLE: http://www.investinhamilton.ca/