by State Sen. Fran Millar | Nov 7, 2017 | Top Story
Jeff Bezos is known as a creative genius, taking a cardboard box and disrupting the world’s entire retail industry, making Amazon worth more than twice what the state of California spends in a year. But channeling Bezos’ plans for Amazon for the next 10 to 20 years takes bold vision. And Bezos is a very big thinker – now exploring everything from getting into pharmaceutical sales to allowing a deliveryman access to your home. In the race to win the site for Amazon’s second world headquarters, 238 cities, provinces and states including the state of Georgia just submitted bids to the company. Most focused on the usual giveaways from tax breaks to financing packages meant to lure any company – no matter what the company’s ticker symbol. Amazon’s site selection team is expected to visit metro Atlanta before the end of the year, according to Georgia’s economic development officials. But the halls of the Seattle Company’s headquarters are abuzz with proposal for metro Atlanta that is as imaginative as Bezos. It’s a plan to allow the CEO to start from scratch and build his own 21st Century headquarters in Atlanta’s suburbs in a corporate city named Amazon, Ga. The concept of placing the retail giant in the DeKalb County suburb not only would check off the company’s “musts” but channel much of Bezos’ known creativity as well as future needs. Last month, the newly-incorporated city of Stonecrest voted to ask the Georgia Legislature to proceed with allowing it to de-annex 345 acres so that Amazon could become a corporate city. When Georgia lawmakers convene in January, it will be...
