For Jeff Cheney, the mayor of Frisco, Tex., a city of 160,000 about a half-hour drive from Dallas, the courtship includes offering to build his city around Amazon. We’re forward thinkers, and we’re serious.”PhotoCity applications are not due until Oct. 19, but Mr. Cheney has already sent a video letter to Amazon. Mark D. Boughton, the mayor of Danbury, Conn., posted a video on Sept. 14 calling himself a “proud Amazon customer” and asking Alexa, the Amazon virtual assistant, where Amazon should build its second headquarters. “It’s corporate welfare.”But Mr. Gardner acknowledged that many cities really have no other course than to try and win Amazon. And that’s Tucson,” Mr. Snell said.

Source: New York Times September 25, 2017 09:00 UTC