The most outrageous incentives cities offered Amazon in their HQ2 bids

Atlanta

The Georgia project overseeing Atlanta’s bid for HQ2 released its full proposal Tuesday, detailing more than $2 billion of taxpayer-funded incentives. Among the more eye-catching perks offered were an “Amazon Georgia Academy,” a state university–affiliated education program featuring 24-week boot camp programs for company employees; an exclusive lounge — with free parking — for Amazon executives at one of the busiest airports in the world, Hartsfield-Jackson International; and the possible addition of a car on Atlanta’s MARTA trains to help “distribute products around the city.”

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Those perks came on top of more than $1.7 billion in tax incentives, largely from what the state called $1.3 billion of “mega project tax credits,” and an additional $87 million in local tax credits from the city of Atlanta. “I couldn’t be more proud of the efforts that were put forward by our state economic development team,” Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said in a statement.

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