Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus

Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by annexrichmond on Thursday February 14, 2019 @11:57AM (#19163404)

> We do not intend to re-open the HQ2 search at this time. We will proceed as planned in Northern Virginia and Nashville, and we will continue to hire and grow across our 17 corporate offices and tech hubs in the U.S. and Canada.

So this whole HQ2 thing ended up being a grand waste of everybody's time.

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by stevietopsiders on Thursday February 14, 2019 @12:12PM (#19163588)

Big slap in the face to the other cities filing bids. They also made attractive offers, but Amazon wasn't interested in them, just in wringing tax breaks out of NYC.

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by kevin_b_er on Thursday February 14, 2019 @12:25PM (#19163748)

The HQ2 search was likely always a facade to try to leverage their real targets. Hopefully all those other cities now realize Amazon was just playing them. Corporations can and will lie for profit. Corporations just don't like it when they get caught.

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by SeanLuke on Thursday February 14, 2019 @02:00PM (#19164752)

I think Arlington would disagree with you.

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by rexreed on Thursday February 14, 2019 @02:21PM (#19164978)

Not for those of us in the N. Virginia region. I'm celebrating the announcement as a double-down on our region

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by rexreed on Sunday February 24, 2019 @03:08PM (#19240324)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17503917

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