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11-24-2017, 02:17 AM
How three underdog cities are fighting for Amazon HQ2
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Chad Emerson, president and CEO of Downtown Huntsville, Inc., knows that the odds are stacked against the city of Huntsville, Alabama being selected as home of Amazon's proposed second headquarters — but he takes a page from the city's space race past when explaining why he believes anything is possible.*
"The rockets and the rocketeers were all based here and that was called a 'moon shot,'" Emerson told me. "A lot of people questioned whether it was possible or practical. Here in Huntsville, we didn't question whether it was possible or practical, we just set to innovate and make it happen." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/23/three-cities-bid-amazon-hq2/)
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Chad Emerson, president and CEO of Downtown Huntsville, Inc., knows that the odds are stacked against the city of Huntsville, Alabama being selected as home of Amazon's proposed second headquarters — but he takes a page from the city's space race past when explaining why he believes anything is possible.*
"The rockets and the rocketeers were all based here and that was called a 'moon shot,'" Emerson told me. "A lot of people questioned whether it was possible or practical. Here in Huntsville, we didn't question whether it was possible or practical, we just set to innovate and make it happen." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/11/23/three-cities-bid-amazon-hq2/)
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