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Amazon received $16 million in subsidies, tax breaks, and grants from Colorado communities to build nine facilities.
Advocacy group Good Jobs First, which opposes such subsidies, found Colorado provided the 29th-highest amount of grants and breaks among U.S. states to the nearly $1-trillion company.
Colorado is ranked behind Kansas (2 projects/$22 million) and ahead of Oklahoma (5 projects/$11 million), Utah (3 projects/$10 million), and Delaware (2 projects/$8 million).
Arlington, Virginia was awarded the largest portion of the 310 taxpayer-subsidized Amazon projects.
The two largest subsidies provided in Colorado were from the Thornton government, equaling $6 million for an EZ tax abatement (for DEN3 facility) for this year only and $4 million for an Urban renewal grant from the city.
There were no developments which received undisclosed subsidy amounts.
In the fall of 2022, Amazon listed two Colorado facilities, one in Arvada and the other in Englewood, as being closed that year. They were closed as Amazon reduced its workforce and footprint after greatly expanding during the COVID-19 pandemic, as reported by the International Business Times.
As of Nov. 17, 2022, Amazon had received 310 separate tax break deals from local and state governments across the U.S., totaling $5.14 billion.
| State | # Projects | Total Subsidy |
|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 20 | $824,291,799 |
| Illinois | 16 | $732,973,199 |
| New York | 22 | $671,446,986 |
| Washington | 10 | $608,644,670 |
| Oregon | 32 | $483,459,645 |
| Texas | 13 | $305,959,751 |
| Ohio | 14 | $172,418,555 |
| Tennessee | 20 | $166,030,438 |
| Kentucky | 21 | $111,789,976 |
| Missouri | 2 | $110,600,000 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | $86,979,275 |
| California | 12 | $84,541,000 |
| Michigan | 5 | $82,352,146 |
| Maryland | 3 | $68,425,000 |
| South Carolina | 5 | $64,297,962 |
| Indiana | 15 | $60,389,500 |
| Alabama | 2 | $56,500,000 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | $54,135,500 |
| Louisiana | 7 | $48,967,587 |
| New Jersey | 3 | $45,422,240 |
| Florida | 13 | $43,239,475 |
| Connecticut | 3 | $37,700,000 |
| North Carolina | 5 | $31,186,975 |
| Pennsylvania | 4 | $29,557,871 |
| Georgia | 5 | $27,115,929 |
| Mississippi | 3 | $23,925,795 |
| Iowa | 2 | $22,400,000 |
| Kansas | 2 | $21,802,522 |
| Colorado | 9 | $15,779,091 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | $11,207,651 |
| Utah | 3 | $9,780,226 |
| Delaware | 2 | $7,972,500 |
| Minnesota | 1 | $5,700,000 |
| New Mexico | 1 | $5,244,071 |
| Arizona | 2 | $5,139,671 |
| Nevada | 5 | $3,251,324 |
| Rhode Island | 1 | $2,700,000 |
| Maine | 11 | $578,828 |
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