When Amazon launched its HQ2 contest last fall, dangling a prize of 50,000 high-paying jobs and a US$5bil (RM20.97bil) investment, 238 North American cities and regions embarked on a mad scramble, providing proprietary data and offering hefty tax breaks to host the company's second headquarters.
Among the California supplicants including San Diego, Irvine and San Francisco, Los Angeles alone made the cut of 20 finalists, the lone survivor west of the Rockies.
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