Shopping malls battered by online retailers may be offered to Amazon as HQ2 sites


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  • Sunday, 08 Oct 2017

Amazon's campus in Seattle, Wash., photographed from the roof of Amazon's Port 99 building. Real-estate developers from Phoenix to Washington, D.C., are suggesting former shopping malls as prime locations for Amazon's next headquarters. (Jordan Stead/Amazon)

SEATTLE: Amazon will have plenty of options when it picks the site for its second headquarters, and in an ironic twist for a company that helped introduce the world to online retail, a few of those options may be defunct shopping malls. 

Real-estate developers from Phoenix to Washington, D.C., are suggesting former temples of American commerce as prime locations for Amazon's next headquarters. 

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