Amazon’s HQ2 picks are conspicuously absent from America’s 10 best-performing cities list (Monica Nickelsburg/GeekWire)

Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire
Amazon’s HQ2 picks are conspicuously absent from America’s 10 best-performing cities list – When Amazon announced it would split its second headquarters between New York City and the Washington, D.C., area, it seemed like a glaring example of winner-takes-all urbanism where talent, money and jobs cluster in a handful of superstar cities. But the Milken Institutes annual report on the nations best-performing cities …