Tech talent study ranks Dallas-Fort Worth middle of pack among Amazon HQ2 contenders


Dallas-Fort Worth ranks ninth among the 20 cities in contention for Amazon’s sometimes-coveted HQ2, according to the latest rankings of top tech talent markets.

According to rankings by commercial real estate firm CBRE, Dallas-Fort Worth is outgunned in the tech talent category by, in order, Washington, D.C., Toronto, New York, Austin, Boston, Raleigh-Durham, Atlanta, and Denver when looking only at cities in contention for the project called HQ2.

DFW beats out, in order, Chicago, Columbus,…

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