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The Arizona Chamber of Commerce declined to disclose details of a proposal to encourage Amazon to build its second headquarters in the state.
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Amazon set an Oct. 19 deadline to submit detailed proposals, but a public records request by the Arizona Daily Star for the Arizona filing was denied.
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“While the ACA recommended to Amazon on behalf of the state, the project is still active and therefore we have not released the document because doing so could harm the competition with the state in the system,” said Susan. E. Marie, senior assistant of ACA. head of sales and communications, he said via email.
She said the proposal “contains specific development strategies, location, and other important information, we do not have the information to respond to your request.”
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Attorney Phil Higden, who works on public records cases for Perkins Co., said the proposal is a public document and the only exception is “development or action” that is a matter of law enforcement.
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Business proposals almost always include tax breaks, subsidies and other financial incentives provided by taxpayers, which the document classifies as “public benefits”.
“How does it hurt his position if what Amazon already sees becomes public?” Higdon said. “Unfortunately, this is the system that government agencies are using recently because they are not facing challenges.”
Last month, Amazon announced plans to build its second corporate headquarters in 15 years with 50,000 new employees and an investment of more than $5 billion. A decision is expected in 2018.
Sun Corridor Inc., the region’s largest economic development agency, tried to attract Amazon by presenting a 21-foot saguaro to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in Seattle. The gift was rejected and returned to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum.
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Because the ACA will not be returning the proposal, it is unclear whether it is included as a possible destination.
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© Copyright 2023 Arizona Daily Star, PO Box 26887, AZ 85726-6887 | Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | I’m not selling my information Preferences CookieAmazon.com, already one of Arizona’s largest employers, said it will hire 500 people over the next two years at an expanded technology center near Tempetown Lake.
The online retailer said it will be located at 100 S. Mill Ave. leased 90,000 square feet in the building below the building, part of the Hayden Ferry Lakeside development north of the University of Arizona.
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The building contains 1.6 million square meters of office, retail and residential space. Amazon also leases space in other nearby buildings, where it houses about 3,000 people.
Amazon jobs in Arizona have nearly doubled in the past year and a half, and most of the company’s jobs in the state have been created in the past decade.
The new positions at Tempewill include technical and non-technical areas, including systems development engineers, data scientists and marketing and human relations staff.
In addition to the 500 new jobs, Amazon currently has more than 150 technology and corporate positions in the Phoenix area.
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Amazon’s 500 new technologies and corporate functions will support a variety of sales and other functions, including improved functionality in the Amazon product ordering system, new tools for Amazon Photos and new machine learning models to personalize the shopping experience.
The company now has 35,000 employees in 18 technology centers and its headquarters in the Seattle and Washington, DC areas. The other five cities that received art projects are Dallas, Detroit, Denver, New York and San Diego.
In addition to what he calls a great salary and great benefits, Amazon offers a variety of programs to help employees improve their work skills, such as paid students and scholarship programs. school in cloud computing. Jobs in metro Phoenix – with more than 1,000 high-tech robots at Goodyear facilities – by the end of the year, the e-commerce giant announced Wednesday.
The Goodyear site at Bullard Avenue and Yuma Street is planned as an 855,000-square-foot fulfillment center, where mechanical engineers will work with workers to move small items such as books and toys from warehouses and collect them for delivery, says Amazon. .
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The fulfillment center will be Amazon’s only computerized facility in the Valley. At four stories, it will be the tallest structure ever built in Goodyear.
Amazon paid $20 million earlier this year for the site at Indian School Road and Cotton Lane, in Goodyear’s Loop 303 commercial corridor. It is expected to open next year as a shipping terminal, receiving bulk cargo. of goods and transport them to the filling centers of the valley.
The Seattle-based company plans to open 10 new locations in metro Phoenix, including six “delivery stations,” which hire a third party to deliver packages, groceries and food orders as part of its “last mile” Amazon.
“Amazon employs thousands of people in our state, and the company’s decision to expand its operations here will provide thousands of jobs to the citizens.” “We are grateful for Amazon’s continued investment in Arizona.”
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Amazon has been building a presence in the Southwest Valley for years. This new robot-heavy manufacturing center and overseas location brings the company to five sites in Goodyear.
The company already has a fulfillment center, global operations center and delivery center in the city located on Interstate 10 west of Phoenix.
“We can’t get enough Amazon in Goodyear,” Goodyear Mayor Georgia Lord said in a statement. “Despite the epidemic, development in our city is increasing … and we are happy that Amazon will contribute to our development.”
The announcement is good economic news for the city, after Nike abandoned plans to open a factory in July that would have created 500 jobs.
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Many of the new locations Amazon plans to open this year are “shipping terminals.” Here is a map of each of the 11 sites:
The company plans to hire 500 over the next two years at the Tempe facility under construction at Mill Avenue and Rio Salado Parkway. The company already has about 3,000 employees in office buildings near downtown Tempe.
This is nearly double the number of employees in Arizona that the company had a year and a half ago.
Many of his employees are in fulfillment centers, where they take online orders for everything from books and electronics to clothing and bric-a-brac and send miles of conveyor belts to fill on trucks. delivery and the Door leads to the future. Arizona .Amazon, already Arizona’s third-largest private sector employer, announced Tuesday that it will create 550 more jobs at the Metro Phoenix Technology Center in Tempe over the next few years.
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The new positions will support Amazon’s operations in consumer retail, web services and operations and include software development engineers, senior solution architects, project managers and business analysts.
“Not only does Phoenix and Tempe have an incredible pipeline of talent, but it’s also a place where people still want to move,” said Doug Welzel, site manager for Amazon’s Phoenix Tech Hub, in a statement. prepared. “We’ve already created more than 5,000 corporate and technology jobs in the Phoenix area, and we’re excited to continue investing here.”
Sandra Watson, president and CEO of the Arizona Chamber of Commerce, said the expansion reflects “Arizona’s talented workforce, as well as our first-rate passion for technology and design.”
Amazon’s investment is the latest in a string of tech deals in the Middle East that include GoDaddy’s decision to move its headquarters to Tempe, Intel’s $20 billion expansion in Chandler and Facebook’s new data center. in Mesa.
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Tempe Mayor Corey Woods said such investments will “help Tempe attract more business and technology talent to our city.”
Amazon counted 32,000 jobs in Arizona in the United States this year in the top 100 non-state employers.
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