Georgia’s (Unsuccessful) Amazon Pitch Included This Video
Employees walk through a lobby at Amazon’s headquarters Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2018, in Seattle. Amazon, which is growing too big for its Seattle hometown, is spreading out to the East Coast. The online shopping giant ended its 14-month-long competition for a second headquarters Tuesday by selecting New York and Arlington, Va., as the joint winners. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)
Atlanta didn’t land Amazon’s second north American headquarters, but it did make a cool HQ2 pitch video.
At a little over two minutes, it’s a montage of images showing Atlanta’s journey from post-Civil War devastation, emergence as an economic engine and cradle of the Civil Rights Movement, which produced one of the world’s most powerful voices against racial discrimination, Martin Luther King Jr.
“Atlanta is a phoenix, from a city that literally rose from the ashes to a city that changed the course of our great nation. That’s part of our DNA,” says the video’s narrator, as Ray Charles’ “Georgia On My Mind” plays in the background.
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