The insiders were correct: Amazon announced Tuesday that its new second headquarters will be split between a site in Queens and another in Crystal City, northern Virginia. Each will have about 25,000… Money News Summaries.
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The insiders were correct: Amazon announced Tuesday that its new second headquarters will be split between a site in Queens and another in Crystal City, northern Virginia. Each will have about 25,000 employees. Nashville, meanwhile, will get an « operations center of excellence » with about 5,000 workers, reports the Wall Street Journal and WKRN. « We’re talking about the single biggest economic development deal in the history of New York City, » said a pleased Mayor Bill De Blasio. Less happy is congresswoman-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a democratic socialist.
« Amazon is a billion-dollar company, » she tweeted on Monday, per Politico . « The idea that it will receive hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks at a time when our subway is crumbling and our communities need MORE investment, not less, is extremely concerning to residents here. » Amazon’s home base will continue to be in Seattle, but the Crystal City location gives the company and owner Jeff Bezos closer proximity to Capitol Hill. (Ocasio-Cortez has another worry: affording the steep rent prices in her soon-to-be new home of DC.)
