MoCo Announced As One Of The 20 Finalists For Amazon Headquarters

Updated 12:00pm 1/18/18:
According to this Bethesda Beat article, the proposed location in MoCo is the White Flint area.
​www.bethesdamagazine.com/Bethesda-Beat/2018/Montgomery-County-on-Shortlist-for-Second-Amazon-Headquarters/

ontgomery County was announced as one of the 20 finalists for the second Amazon headquarters.

This morning Amazon announced that it narrowed the list of potential locations for its second headquarters to 20 areas. Before today there were 238 proposals, so making it to the final 20 is a big step for MoCo.

Here are the other finalists:

Atlanta, GA
Austin, TX
Boston, MA
Chicago, IL
Columbus, OH
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
Indianapolis, IN
Los Angeles, CA
Miami, FL
Nashville, TN
Newark, NJ
New York City, NY
Northern Virginia, VA
Philadelphia, PA
Pittsburgh, PA
Raleigh, NC
Toronto, ON
Washington D.C.

​More here: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/01/18/amazon-narrows-list-of-candidates-for-new-headquarters-hq2-to-20.html?__twitter_impression=true