Site of Amazon’s HQ2 has much to learn from Seattle

In this Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, photo, construction cranes fill a block across from an Amazon building in Seattle. Whichever city lands Amazon’s second headquarters, some people in Seattle, it’s original hometown, say there are downsides to having the tech giant in the neighborhood. For years now, much of downtown Seattle has been a maze of broken streets and caution-taped sidewalks, with dozens of enormous cranes towering overhead as construction trucks rumble past pedestrians and bicyclists. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)