The Wall Street Journal has spoken: Philadelphia doesn’t belong on the shortlist for Amazon’s HQ2.

The newspaper has Dallas in the top slot, followed by Boston in second, in the HQ2 derby. Atlanta is tied with Washington, D.C. and Seattle – which the e-commerce giant already calls home – at No. 3, writes Urvaksh Karkaria and Craig Ey for Philadelphia Business Journal. 

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Competitor New York Times famously picked Denver as the site for the 8-million-square-foot HQ2. Philadelphia is not in the Journal‘s Top 12.

Oddly, the WSJ has Nashville, Tenn. tied with New York at No. 6 in the rankings of locations likely to land HQ2. The list is based on Amazon’s HQ2 criteria, interviews with site-selection experts and “people familiar with Amazon’s thinking.”

Seattle-based Amazon has begun site visits to competitor cities, and could have a shortlist of cities by Dec. 1. A decision will be made next year.

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