MAKING THE CUT - Two Texas cities - Austin and Dallas -- have made Amazon's list of 20 finalists for its second headquarters in North America. The company says the $5 billion project would include more than 50,000 jobs and be comparable to Amazon's Seattle campus. The town of Frisco is part of the DFW region and its mayor Jeff Cheney tells public radio KERA in Dallas, his town’s location along the city's main commercial corridor - the Dallas North Tollway offers an ideal incentive. "You know, there's plenty of land available to meet their square 
footage needs along that tract and then as you kind of move up north through the region, the rest of our city really is undeveloped, so a lot of that is just free for them to imagine what it could be." Brandom Gengelbach with the Fort Worth Chamber says he's excited about advancing to the next round. He thinks Amazon liked what it saw in the regional proposal. "The blessing about living in our region is that it really isn't a tough sell from a corporate headquarters standpoint. We have an amazing airport with wonderful ability to fly across the world that is right in the center of our metroplex. We've got great universities and access to amazing talent...and low cost of living." For now, the competition across North America continues. Amazon says it expects to make a final decision later this year.
