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Seattle has seen the positives and negatives of hosting Amazon's headquarters.
Cities and states are coughing up billions of dollars in incentives to win the bid for Amazon's second headquarters, dubbed HQ2.
The tech giant has promised that the $5 billion campus will bring economic prosperity to its chosen location. Seattle - where Amazon planted its first headquarters in the late 1990s - has seen this financial boost first-hand.
Now Seattle's largest employer, Amazon employs 40,000 people at its headquarters and has served as the catalyst for the city's booming tech industry.
At the same time, the company has transformed Seattle's culture as well as its physical landscape. In March, local governmental and business leaders debated whether Amazon has been good for Seattle.
The Seattle Times reports that the leaders echoed many of the concerns that residents have voiced regarding Amazon's role in several issues now facing the city, including gentrification, rising housing prices, and unrelenting construction and gridlock.
The HQ2 city could also end up dealing with some of these less-than-positive changes, explained below: