Peter Fisher, an expert on tax incentive programs, said only company executives truly know whether a subsidy made a difference. “If someone is willing to give you money, you are a fool not to take it.” “From a business perspective, it makes total sense,” said Thornberg, who thinks the Washington, D.C., area is a likely candidate because Amazon already has a West Coast base in Seattle. Instead, he said the public search serves as an opportunity for the company to leverage a lucrative offer from a city it has no intention of moving to get a better deal from the city it ultimately wants to call its second home. Los Angeles and Irvine already have said they will submit proposals, and any lack of mega-subsidies may not be a deal breaker.Įconomic development experts said the primary reason companies move or grow in an area is not a subsidy, but rather proximity to a skilled workforce, distribution routes, a strong customer base and an area in which executives want to live.Ĭhristopher Thornberg, founding partner of Beacon Economics, said Amazon’s decision likely will be based on such factors. That doesn’t mean Southern California cities can’t prevail in the bidding for Amazon’s second headquarters site, known as HQ2. “But Tesla wanted a massive cash upfront payment that I don't think would be fair to the taxpayers,” Brown said. Jerry Brown said California “fought hard for Tesla.” If Amazon chose Denver, on the other hand, that would represent 1.9% of Colorado’s 2.6 million nonfarm jobs.Ĭalifornia officials have largely held their purse strings compared to other states, despite losing out on some high-profile competitions in recent years, including when Toyota announced in 2014 that it was moving its North American headquarters to Texas and Tesla chose Nevada to build its so-called gigafactory, also in 2014.Īfter losing Tesla’s lithium-ion battery factory to Nevada and its nearly $1.3-billion package, Gov. And given the state’s size, any one relocation, either to or from California, is a drop in the bucket.įor example, the 50,000 jobs Amazon said it hopes to create is huge for a corporate move, but it still represents only 0.3% of California’s total 16.8 million nonfarm jobs. Since 2012, the state economy has tended to grow faster than the rest of the nation, with the number of nonfarm jobs rising 15% in California since January 2012, compared with 10% nationwide.

That is both an attraction to incoming employers and a reason why the state has less incentive to pull out the stops on tax breaks and other incentives to attract or keep employers. Southern California and the Bay Area also boast a deep pool of highly skilled workers.

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