We got details of Detroit's Amazon bid the central focus is the Detroit-Windsor Riverfront as an international campus with current Gilbert owned buildings providing space for Amazon employees during phase 1. For phase 2 the hudsons and monroe sites are offered here's where things get interesting for phase 3 and beyond in downtown Detroit the gratiot jail site and District Detroit space are offered. A main central campus dubbed rivereast would sit to the east of the Ren Cen, while a redone surface grade "avenue style" I-375 isn't pictured a south of Jefferson surface road extension but would be the center of rivereast.
Details of the tax proposals are out too there a transit component that includes a proposal to extend the Qline up to 8 mile however it is unfunded as of now. The expanded limited stop bus service expansion along Grand River and Michigan are given as examples of the start of a push for improved transit.
There was too much on the tax proposal to post however.
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Amazon HQ2 bid revealed: tax breaks, $120 million talent program, transit vision
By CHAD LIVENGOOD
Crain's Detroit Business
December 20, 2017
-Snyder administration to launch $120 million initiative to meet talent needs of tech companies.
-Bid for Amazon redacts total value of tax credits and incentives.
-Gilbert offers Amazon space in One Campus Martius and Chase buildings.
The state of Michigan offered to let Amazon.com Inc. operate in Detroit with extensive tax breaks for three decades and capture its employees' state income taxes for 20 years while promising to create a $120 million program to help meet the online tech giant's workforce needs.
Crain's on Tuesday obtained the nine-page executive summary and 242-page spiral-bound book that businessman Dan Gilbert's companies submitted to Amazon in October in making a joint Detroit-Windsor bid for the online retail and tech giant's second North American headquarters.
The documents lay out an extensive case from Southeast Michigan's business, political and civic leaders on why Amazon should expand in Detroit and Windsor, taking advantage of talent and tax codes on both sides of the Detroit River.
In a letter to Amazon executives that Gilbert attached to the bid, the billionaire mortgage and real estate mogul used a retail sales pitch to the world's largest online retailer, touting "lowest prices," "biggest selection" and "fastest delivery" for office space, much of which has not yet been built.
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"As part of the Amazon HQ2 proposal, the state is launching a comprehensive set of ten complementary programs designed to meet the workforce needs of tech companies," the summary document says. "This suite of programs — which will bolster STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education and increase the number of tech graduates in Michigan — cover a spectrum from K-12 through post-secondary to life-long learning/continuing education."
Included in those programs are scholarships for computer science students; capital investment grants to educational institutions; teacher training funding; apprenticeships; and subsidized child care for tech workers. The proposal says the programs would impact 250,000 people by 2030.
In addition, the HQ2 bid summary says the University of Michigan, Michigan State University and Wayne State University have "committed to collectively design educational programs on campus or nearby to meet Amazon's talent needs."
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Among the other aspects of the proposal:
The proposal to Amazon and its CEO, Jeff Bezos, says the company could operate for 30 years without paying real estate and personal property taxes, the city of Detroit's 2 percent corporate income tax or the city's utility users tax under the state's Renaissance Zone Program.
-Other sites specifically mentioned are Northland Center site in Southfield and the New Center area north of downtown.
-DTE Energy Co. and EnWin, Windsor's electric utility, says Amazon's office space in Detroit and Windsor can be powered 100 percent by wind power.
-Mass transit in metro Detroit is portrayed as being poised to "expand significantly in 2018" with the addition of limited-stop express bus service along Grand River Avenue from Detroit to Novi; along Jefferson Avenue from downtown to the Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood; and on Michigan Avenue from downtown to Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
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