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Amazon Reportedly Picks New York, Northern Virginia for HQ2 :
Decision to be formally announced as soon as Tuesday, The Wall Street Journal reports.
[...] It appears Amazon couldn't settle on a single site for its second corporate headquarters and has decided to divide the duties between a second and third headquarters.
The online retailing giant is expected to announce as soon as Tuesday it's chosen New York City and northern Virginia's Crystal City for its planned second headquarters -- dubbed HQ2, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday night, citing people familiar with the matter. Other cities may get other responsibilities, the newspaper added.
Amazon's HQ2 gained attention as one of the biggest corporate projects in the US, with the e-retailer planning to hire 50,000 workers and spend $5 billion. The company fueled excitement about its plans by inviting cities to pitch themselves as sites for the development.
It was reported earlier this month that Amazon was examining the option of creating two separate 25,000-person campuses, in part due to the need to hire enough tech talent and partly to ease housing and traffic concerns. Two HQ2 projects would also ensure that Seattle remains Amazon's definitive headquarters.
I don't suppose Amazon would settle for one 30,000 person campus and one 20,000 person campus, should they be able to cut a better deal with one city over the other?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by edIII on Tuesday November 13 2018, @08:56PM (2 children)
I think every person from Governor, down to city councilman should be sacked for it. Why the fuck would we pay 1.5 billion for a megacorp to come in again? How is that being part of the community, like all their fucking marketing is going to suggest? We need to pay for schools, roads, medical, infrastructure. Amazon OWES the 1.5 billion dollars to the community in the form of taxes. That should never be abated for any fucking reason. Unless Amazon can directly, and with legal commitment, show benefits to the community EXCEEDING 1.5 billion worth of improvements. Not 1.5 billion in living wages, but 1.5 billion in taxes on living wages.
No fucking wonder we can't find any money to do anything. Why the poor cannot be helped, why we cannot afford medical, etc. All the fucking money is given away to parasites like Bezos. May they all burn in the deepest levels of hell.
If fucking Amazon can get 1.5 billion, than all the non-profits and charities should get 100% tax relief, and funded up to 1.5 billion. Even it out to where the community is actually better of by that shithead putting his HQ in it.
I'm glad the corruption of Northern California wasn't able to bid high enough for the privilege of being fucked by Bezos.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 13 2018, @10:34PM (1 child)
One only needs to look at Seattle and the problems it has with affordable housing, homelessness and roads/infrastructure. It's a nightmare. Personally, I don't see how Amazon could grow much further in Seattle at this point. They've already leased two buildings in Bellevue, across the lake from Seattle.
(Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday November 14 2018, @02:10AM
NY infrastructure is melting; especially transportation.
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