Amazon ’s grueling , yr - foresightful HQ2 hunt — which mostly entailed city across the area competing to outdo each other with the most lavish incentive , often behind closed doors — has derive to a finish , with the company reportedly choose New York and Crystal City , a neighborhood in Arlington County , Virginia .
According to theWall Street Journal , “ hoi polloi familiar with the topic ” relay that the conclusion has been made and may be herald as soon as Tuesday :
Amazon is dividing the 2nd headquarters equally between New York ’s Long Island City and Arlington County ’s Crystal City neighborhoods , which are both located now across from the major city middle . The decision in effect gives Amazon a major presence in three coastal cities .
Amazon decline to annotate .
For the retiring week , both New York and Crystal City have been publically touted as major contenders for HQ2 sites , with news report indicating that the 50,000 Job Amazon claimed will be created by the move will besplit by both urban center . Crystal City is very stuffy to Washington , DC , and well within the bound of the capitol ’s sprawling interior security complex , which could help the due east - commerce giant expand its arena into cloud cipher contract bridge with delegacy like theCIA , Homeland Security , andthe Pentagon . AsGizmodo note previously , it ’s obvious why the Seattle - found Amazon would choose the big East Coast city in New York , though the rumored site in Queens is an “ already herd , unaffordable , rapidly gentrify neighborhood ” whose problems will likely be exacerbated by a immense technical school campus .
protest are already being plan in New York , according to a tweet from New York City Council deputy leader Jimmy Van Bramer .
This scrap against#AmazonHQ2is just beginning . unite us if you’re able to on Wednesday at 11:30am in#LIC.@SenGianaris@MaketheRoadNY@nychange@RWDSUpic.twitter.com/uuRggVFIKR
— Jimmy Van Bramer ( @JimmyVanBramer)November 13 , 2018
However , New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been an outspoken exponent of welcome Amazon to the city , recount theNew York Timesthat he had organise a “ great incentive package ” and “ I ’ll exchange my name to Amazon Cuomo if that ’s what it takes . ” His Wikipedia page was briefly edit on Monday to mull that command :
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— Good Idea Dave ( @DaveCoIon)November 13 , 2018
( A separate report by theNew York Daily Newsclaimed that Cuomo had purpose the infamously polluted Newtown Creek between Long Island City and Brooklyn ’s Greenpoint locality be rename “ Amazon River , ” though the source of that paper later claimed it was just a peculiar little jape . )
What ’s more , the Journal wrote that “ other cities may also have major sites . ” The massive incentives offer by many of those cities have been robustly criticized by economists who say the promised returnsoften fall short , and as theNew York Times noted , the bargaining process for HQ2 may have given Amazon extensive “ insight into the form of accommodation that places are willing to make to add it to townspeople . ” The company wasreportedly havinglate - stage discussions with cities include Dallas and Austin , as well as lecture with Chicago and Miami until late .
This is a violate news story and may be updated as more entropy becomes usable .
[ Wall Street Journal ]
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