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Amazon, Georgia: If you name it, will company come?

The Stonecrest City Council in Georgia voted 4-2 on Monday to deannex 345 acres of land and to ask the state  legislature to use it to form the city of Amazon. (Wikimedia Commons)

STONECREST, Ga. – 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 deannex 345 acres of land and to ask the Georgia General Assembly to use it to form the city of Amazon, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

“How could you not want your 21st century headquarters to be located in a city named Amazon?” said Stonecrest Mayor Jason Lary.

Amazon has said it will spend more than $5 billion to build a second headquarters, dubbed HQ2, in North America with as many as 50,000 jobs. The Seattle-based company said it’s looking at metropolitan areas with populations of more than a million people, which have the potential to attract top technical talent.

Stonecrest officials plan to submit a bid for Amazon’s HQ2 by the company’s Oct. 19 deadline. The company expects to make a decision next year.

Stonecrest is 20 miles east of Atlanta and is home to about 53,000 residents. It incorporated as a city this year.