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Amazon's Pass Of Boston Could Be Good For Tech Industry Here

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Was it the traffic? Our aging public transportation infrastructure? The area's tight housing market? A gut feeling from the world's richest man?

We may never know why Amazon chose Crystal City and Queens over Boston, but Amazon's choice may be a good thing for the tech industry already here in Massachusetts.

To talk more about the decision, Tim Rowe, founder and CEO of the Cambridge Innovation Center, joined Morning Edition.

This segment aired on November 14, 2018.

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Bob Oakes was a senior correspondent in the WBUR newsroom, a role he took on in 2021 after nearly three decades hosting WBUR's Morning Edition.

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