Leading urbanist Richard Florida is convinced Amazon HQ2 won’t go to a suburb
But Richard Florida, among the world’s leading urbanist scholars, believes they might be backing the incorrect horse. Florida is Director of Cities in the University of Toronto and also works with New York University and Florida International University. He’s written two books and countless articles on urbanism in the modern age and functions as editor-at-large for CityLab. Florida has monitored Amazon’s hunt for another headquarters city carefully because the firm declared its HQ2 strategies in September 2017. Like many analysts, he too considers the Washington, D.C., metro region has the best opportunities for HQ2 — he just doesn’t think it’ll be Northern Virginia. “I believe D.C. is the front-runner,” Florida said in a meeting with GeekWire. “I still don’t think that it’s going to attend a suburb. I believe that it will go to a location such as the Anacostia waterfront. It is going to go to a very interesting urban region served by transit” But, Florida wants you to carry that p...