INSIGHTS Insights for 11-14-18 By Staff Tuesday, November 13, 2018 1:09 PM "Amazon was not going through this exercise to pick a single HQ2. It was part of a broader effort—a corporate relocation strategy—to crowd source a wide variety of data." -Richard Florida, a leading urbanist and professor at the University of Toronto, in an interview with CNN after Amazon announced that it had chosen Long Island City (New York City) and Arlington, Va., (in northern Virginia) to split the duties as its “second” headquarters location after year-long search that involved “hundreds of cities,” according to CNN’s report.