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    As bids for Amazon's headquarters come due, tech has a chance to spread the wealth

    by Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times Oct 12, 2017 5 minutes

    As Amazon established its dominance in online retail, logistics and cloud computing, the company's headquarters in Seattle grew appropriately massive. Today it represents a $5 billion investment in 33 buildings, 8 million square feet and more than 40,000 employees.

    Just this month, the digital giant confirmed it would be leasing another 722,000 square feet in a 58-story tower in the heart of the city's downtown.

    Amazon has helped establish Seattle as one of the great tech meccas, behind the San Francisco Bay Area. But the concentration of tech growth on the West Coast has come with a cost, in terms of skyrocketing housing costs and jammed freeways.

    Now, as Amazon ponders where to locate a second headquarters site and 50,000 workers - proposals are due by Oct. 19 - it is raising questions about whether the industry, and America, would be better off spreading the tech-jobs wealth.

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