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The power grid is fed by renewable hydro-electric generating stations in the province's north. Manitoba Hydro is a net exporter of this clean energy to nearby jurisdictions including Minnesota and Wisconsin. The grid is so reliable that your engineers forget about it; your power bills are so low, your CFO (almost) forgets about them. AWS loves everything about it. Diverse restaurants line the streets around the campus while food truck wars and farmers' markets provide a change of pace. The downtown indoor walkway system becomes popular in winter months and offers a different way to explore the downtown. Multiple hotels are linked to the campus, making it easy to host visitors. The Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport is just 15 minutes from your downtown offices. You can stop in to visit the Amazon campus airport extension building while offering you a highly secure facility that is plugged into your distribution network – or go board a flight to Seattle, San Francisco, New York or Washington. All major North American centres are less than three hours away by plane. SPEED TO MARKET Speed to market is key. We get that. Winnipeg is at the geographic centre of North America. We're an hour from the U.S. border and our airport is the largest freight distribution centre in Canada. We are a major North American rail hub with direct access to ports on three oceans (Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic) and the Gulf of Mexico. And we are home to some of the continent's largest trucking operations because we are remarkably well connected by road. Our location has always made us a trading hub. Today we have CentrePort Canada, North America's largest inland port, growing next to our airport. CentrePort offers 20,000 acres of high-quality, affordable access to tri-modal transportation including three Class 1 railways and our 24/7 global air cargo routes. DEDICATED AMA ZON SUPPORT OFFICE Amazon will have a dedicated office – jointly sponsored by the City of Winnipeg and the Province of Manitoba – to provide complete support for government relations, recruiting, community outreach and more. Think of it as the Amazon concierge office. It will be there to help expedite issues such as site selection, planning and permits. It will have tight relationships with local downtown development and business organizations as well as the federal government. The mission of the office will be to facilitate a fast, smooth move. COLL ABORATIVE, CONNECTED BUSINESS AND POLITICAL COMMUNITY We pull together. And we can do it in a hurry if we need to. When there's an urgent issue to discuss, it's routine for our business and political leaders to meet to advise one another and act to resolve the issue. The offices of the mayor and premier have a close working relationship, 2 HELLO WORLD, DAY 1 IN WINNIPEG THINK OF IT AS THE AMAZON CONCIERGE OFFICE. 20 T E A M M A N I T O B A