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Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

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Re: Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

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Post by nickdandakis »

ghaff wrote: post #30
jfasi wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The E/M/F/R tunnels are already some of the most congested, most delayed, least pleasant segments in the entire city. As much as I welcome Amazon's move, I don't envy the poor suckers who have to ride in and out of Queens.

The "interesting" thing about that location is that it actually isn't especially especially convenient for commutes to/from places where young well-paid techies would normally choose to live.

Out of curiosity, where do you think young well-paid techies live in the city?

Because I'm a young well-paid techie, and I live off of the G line in Brooklyn, which this move would definitely affect.

Re: Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

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Post by FiveSquared »

lbarrow wrote: post #37

Newly elected Democrats in the NY state legislature might block the NYC Amazon subsidies and put the funds into student debt relief instead: https://capitalandmain.com/will-new-york-fund-amazon-subsidi...

Good. Studen loasns are BS and it will help stop more traffic

Re: Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

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Post by bsimpson »

dublinben wrote: post #6
mikeash wrote: post #3

What the heck is “National Landing”? I’ve lived in this area for over a decade and that’s the first time I’ve heard the name.

It's not just you. Apparently they decided to create a new name for this announcement. https://www.washingtonian.com/2018/11/13/did-amazon-just-ren...

That explains why Google Maps had no idea WTF it was.

Re: Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

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Post by amyjess »

patrickmay wrote: post #45
schnevets wrote: post #38

As a New Yorker, I am super disappointed that they chose Long Island City. There were contenders where this stimulus could have been a paradigm shift. Instead, it's just a drop in the bucket for a city that is already growing recklessly. My vote was for Newark, personally. Plenty of office space; access to NJIT, Rutgers, and Princeton; and good public transit that connects directly into NYC. Bezos and co. could have…

I was really hoping for Raleigh and/or Dallas. Instead, Amazon picked two places where the cost of living is worse than Seattle.

As a Dallasite, I've been hoping we won't get it because it would send our housing prices through the stratosphere and ruin traffic for a generation.

From what I've seen, the reaction to this news on /r/Dallas is very positive. We don't want Amazon here.

(Though I figured it was going to be NoVa from the start. I was just terrified I'd be wrong.)

Re: Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

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Post by AnimalMuppet »

imgabe wrote: post #52

Both cities should pull their subsidy packages. Amazon negotiated in bad faith, under false pretenses. The conditions under which any subsidies were offered no longer apply.

Could you state what the false pretenses were, and how those conditions no longer apply? All you have here is a dogmatic assertion with no supporting information. Often that is done by people who have strong beliefs but no basis for them, so if you have a basis, stating it can prevent you from getting lumped in with the "dogmatic unreality" people.

Re: Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

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Post by jesseryoung »

Unless I'm misreading this, it looks like Nashville got the best deal

> Amazon will receive performance-based direct incentives of up to $102 million based on the company creating 5,000 jobs with an average wage of over $150,000 in Nashville.

This is a pretty big deal for Nashville, and costing them only $12,000 per job is a pretty big win.

Re: Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

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Post by rootbear »

rb808 wrote: post #23

> Hiring at both the new headquarters will begin in 2019. Do they have buildings leased? I presumed they were going to build. How can they start hiring already?

There is a lot of empty office space in Crystal City. They can move in almost immediately. They can then start figuring out if they want to build something new.

Re: Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

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Post by melling »

schnevets wrote: post #38

As a New Yorker, I am super disappointed that they chose Long Island City. There were contenders where this stimulus could have been a paradigm shift. Instead, it's just a drop in the bucket for a city that is already growing recklessly. My vote was for Newark, personally. Plenty of office space; access to NJIT, Rutgers, and Princeton; and good public transit that connects directly into NYC. Bezos and co. could have…

I was hoping for Newark too. They already have employees there. Perhaps they’ll eventually expand their offices.

Let’s get the NJ Path to the airport (3 miles) and the 7 Subway to NJ then Newark, Jersey City become boroughs of NYC.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_Subway_Extension

Currently, it looks like an hour from Newark Penn to Long Island City. Path to 1,2,3 Lines...

Re: Amazon Selects New York City and Northern Virginia for New Headquarters

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Post by drfuchs »

Since each city is only receiving half the benefit they thought they were bidding on, presumably they’ll each get to cut their bids in half — the subsidies, tax abatements, infrastructure spending promises, etc.? But I haven’t seen any notice of this in the news coverage. [rerun]
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