If you're the one guy outside of Amazon who knows WHY Amazon is building a 2nd HQ outside Seattle, do please let us know.  Without knowing WHY they are doing it, you are unlikely to know that they've already excluded Denver as a candidate. I agree 100% it could be a show to create a two-horse race with a predetermined winner, but that predetermined winner could well be Denver.  One theory on the driver is that Amazon doesn't want its sole HQ to be located on a major fault line for earthquakes.  If you're looking to avoid war, natural disaster, climate change effects, create a central hub in your largest market, and locate in a place attractive to your workforce, you won't find a better spot than Denver.  Given that, and the fact that Tabor is putting huge economic strains on state and local funding, I'd say "please come, but we expect you to be a good corporate citizen from Day 1, and that includes paying (most all) your taxes."  Denver will succeed this century with or without Amazon.