The most surprising city on Amazon’s HQ2 short list (and it actually has a chance)

Amazon.com Inc. (Nasdaq: AMZN) is out with its 20 contenders for its $5 billion second headquarters. Denver made the cut, to the surprise of almost no one in Denver.

And so did Indianapolis. Not Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Houston, Minneapolis, Phoenix or Portland. Indianapolis, a city known to some as “Naptown.”

Indianapolis might, on its face, be the most surprising and unlikely contender for Amazon’s HQ2.

The Indiana capital joins big markets such as New York, Washington, Chicago and…

Source: Arizona Business Journal