DetroitWindsor Amazon Bid Features An Office In Each City

More details are emerging about the official Detroit-Windsor bid to host the new Amazon headquarters.

It highlights the opportunity to leverage two cities close together, in two countries.

The pitch touts an office in each city, possibly linked by a ferry service, a cable car or gondola over the Detroit River along with using Transit Windsor to move workers between the two locations.

Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens told AM800's 'The Afternoon News' they want to highlight how close the two cities actually are to each other. "So there is the possibility to physically link the two campuses on either side of the border with a cable car or gondola. That is physically or technically possible and something we could do and that's part of the conversation with Amazon."

"Because Detroit and Windsor own their respective halves of the tunnel, and because the city of Windsor runs the only international transit system between the United States and Canada,  we can literally pick people up at the front doors of their headquarters in Windsor at Amazon and bring them to the front doors of their headquarters in Detroit" says Dilkens.

Dilkens says "no other proposal can offer that seamless link, like we can, between Detroit and Windsor and give this company the opportunity to have the best of both worlds in terms talent, in terms of taxation and all sorts of other incentives that are available."

238 towns, cities and jurisdictions across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico submitted a bid last week to the online giant.

Amazon wants to invest close to $5-billion over 15 years in its new headquarters, creating up to 50,000 new jobs.

A site will be selected sometime in 2018.