Boston has a 'pretty good shot' at landing HQ2, Starwood CEO says after deal with Amazon

Boston's bid to land Amazon.com Inc.'s second headquarters has a good chance of succeeding, according to a billionaire real estate investor whose company recently signed a big lease with the tech giant in Seattle. "Boston has a pretty good shot at landing that given that it's as far away [in] technology and infrastructure and the educational base — and just the zeitgeist of the city," said Barry Sternlicht, CEO of Greenwich, Connecticut-based Starwood Capital Group, in a recent interview with…