Ten people from Amazon.com Inc.'s HQ2 economic development team visited Denver in February to check out the region for themselves.
Denver may have been among the first of the 20 finalist bids visited by Amazon (Nadaq: AMZN), said J.J. Ament, president of the Metro Denver Economic Development Corp. — the private organization leading the Colorado region’s effort to become the court the company's second headquarters, which is a promised $5 billion investment.