The company said Thursday that it will spend more than $5 billion to build another headquarters in North America to house as many as 50,000 employees. It plans to stay in its sprawling Seattle headquarters and the new space will be "a full equal" of its current home, said founder and CEO Jeff Bezos
Amazon said its search is open to any metropolitan area in North America that meets the parameters — the city itself doesn't necessarily have to be a million people — but declined to say how open it was to go outside of the United States.
"We want to find a city that is excited to work with us and where our customers, employees, and the community can all benefit," the company said on its search website, about why it was choosing its second headquarters through a public process.
Does this sound like Hartford???