The City of Worcester spent nearly $11,000 to be among the 238 bids to lure online retail giant Amazon’s second headquarters, according to public records specialist MuckRock.
Of the $10,782 spent on the bid, $9,800 was for a two-minute promotion video shot by Worcester company Envision Digital, according to MuckRock.
Other invoices include a total of $900 to Worcester printing service Documents on Demand to produce the actual document and $82 for shipping the bid.
The city did not respond to Worcester Business Journal’s requests for comment on Thursday morning. MuckRock is a national nonprofit working with journalists, researchers and activists to file and review public records requests.
Worcester was one of 238 cities, towns and states submitting a bid to land Amazon’s HQ2, which would bring to an area about 50,000 jobs and a massive infrastructure investment.
The city’s 60-page bid, submitted in October, includes $500 million in real estate tax savings and a 98-acre proposed site off of Rte. 20 abutting the MBTA Commuter Rail line.Â
Many other Massachusetts cities and towns submitted bids, including Leominster and a Marlborough-area coalition of towns, but nothing was spent on those bids, according to MuckRock.
Of the 29 U.S. cities and towns responding to MuckRock’s information request on proposal spending, Virginia Beach, Va. ($69,000), Irvine, Ca. ($25,000), and Camden County, New Jersey ($40,000) outspent Worcester.
