> Corporations have choices. They could go about their business, and simply choose the best location, the one that makes the greatest business sense, and invest

> Corporations have choices. They could go about their business, and simply choose the best location, the one that makes the greatest business sense, and invest accordingly. Or they can as Amazon, GE, and dozens of others, go through the ritual of pretending to entertain a wide range of proposals, and use the leverage of competing bids to sweat the best possible deal out of their preferred location http://cityobservatory.org/cash-prizes-for-bad-corporate-citizenship-amazon-edition/ http://cityobservatory.org/cash-prizes-for-bad-corporate-cit... Whoever 'wins', may not come out ahead. https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/9/10/what-can-i-do-to-have-you-love-me https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/9/10/what-can-i-do-...