Amazon canceled plans for a New York City HQ2. Citizens, civic groups, and New York politicians are pushed back on Governor Cuomo and New York City Mayor de Blasio’s exclamation of economic joy over Amazon’s earlier decision to open a satellite headquarters in Queens. Now it’s over.
After citizens, civic groups, and New York politicians cast doubt about the state’s joy over Amazon’s earlier decision to open one of two new satellite headquarters campuses in Queens, Amazon issued a statement that it will not build in New York City. The company will not look for a replacement site but will continue with its plans for projects in Arlington, Virginia, and Nashville, Tennessee.
Here are the first two paragraphs of today’s statement:
Virginia is reportedly happy with Amazon’s plans to build the second of two remote headquarters in Arlington. Tennessee is all-in on the prospect of 5,000 new employees at a new Amazon facility, to the tune of a $15.2 million state-supported infrastructure package including roads, sewers, and more.
