Amazon PolyPlex

This initial gathering over lunch led to a series of three or four informal “brainstorming” meetings involving higher education, local government, healthcare institutions, businesses, transportation agencies, utilities, and non-profits on ways to advance the economy and quality of life in the area.

Fast forward to September of 2017, when Amazon announced its plans to develop a second headquarters (HQ2) somewhere in North America that will create tech hub with up to 50,000 high-paying jobs. The Starfish group anxiously read Amazon’s Request for Proposals (RFP) and realized that all of the assets desired by Amazon exist right here in the Starfish area! During the past eight weeks, a coalition of Cal Poly Pomona,Fairplex, LA County Supervisor Hilda Solis, the City of Pomona, and the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership pooled resources to develop a HQ2 solution to Amazon called Amazon PolyPlex.