I tend to agree that this is a dumb idea... but think about this. There are a few clusters on the east coast, the clusters could work together to push amazon to one of the other cities in exchange for deals that help the others out.

If I'm being totally honest though I don't think there is much advantage to any of the cities to give Amazon incentives to picking them. I also think that Amazon has already decided.

Nothing better than torpedoing your own RFP to get people chomping at the bit to give you more free stuff.