Nashville is now one of hundreds of cities vying for Amazon's attention -- it submitted a proposal along with 237 other cities to be the new home of Amazon's second headquarters.
Real estate experts say Nashville could be a good fit, but the city would have to build more homes in an already hot housing market.
The company says a strong transit system and access to a large workforce are also key factors to its decision; something that larger cities vying for Amazon's investment already have, on top of more homes already built.
"Some of the municipalities courting Amazon are a lot bigger than Nashville, so they start with a much bigger housing stock in the first place," said Scott Troxel, president of the Greater Nashville Realtors.
If Amazon reaches its goal of hiring up to 50,000 employees, it would be the largest employer in the mid-state region by far: it would employ more than all the people who work for the current top four Nashville-area employers combined, according to data from the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce.
According to the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the 2016 average monthly labor force in the Nashville-Murfreesboro metropolitan statistical area is 972,600 people, meaning Amazon would have to hire more than one out of every 20 people in the area to reach its 50,000 employee goal.
