Nothing Is Too Strange for Cities Wooing Amazon to Build There<br />“You’ve got Canada and the U. S. And people will come from all over.”<br />Mr. Gilbert, the founder of Quicken Loans, has also built an Amazon war room, where more than 40 people are trying to analyze what the online retailer “likes<br />and doesn’t like.” They are also trying to read Mr. Bezos’ psyche.<br />“Our city’s only about 60 percent built out, so we’ve got a lot of available land where we can build to suit,” Mr. Cheney said.<br />“There’s, you know, the immigration issue — we avoid that,” said Dan Gilbert, a local business leader<br />in Detroit who was asked by the city’s mayor, Mike Duggan, to lead the effort to land Amazon.<br />Our immigration policy is much more liberal,” said Mr. Watson, Ottawa’s mayor.<br />“The competition started that Thursday morning when he announced it,” Ms. Hitt said of Mr. Bezos.<br />The video opens on him holding an Amazon box and saying, “Amazon, you’re growing your business,<br />and we want to grow with you.” Jerry Jones, the owner of the Dallas Cowboys, is seen talking about catching the “Frisco Flu,” which the mayor’s office said was a phrase Mr. Jones came up with.
