Amazon, Georgia: If You Name It, Will the Company Come?
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Stonecrest, Ga. (AP) -- Officials from a recently incorporated city outside Atlanta want to shed some of their new municipality's land and rename it Amazon, Georgia, in the hopes it will spur the e-commerce giant to locate a second headquarters there.
The Stonecrest City Council voted 4-2 on Monday to de-annex 345 acres (140 hectares) of land and to ask the Georgia General Assembly to use it to form the city of Amazon, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported .