Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus

Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by jandrese on Thursday February 14, 2019 @12:03PM (#19163482)

I would't feel too bad for Amazon. They are the ones that made it a big spectacle and dragged it out for far longer than necessary or wise.

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by legitster on Thursday February 14, 2019 @12:12PM (#19163583)

I don't necessarily feel bad for Amazon - I guess I just hate how disappointing the result was. Transparency lost.

They likely could have avoided it if they had just selected one of the dark horses like Indianapolis or Saint Louis.

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by untog on Thursday February 14, 2019 @12:17PM (#19163640)

> Transparency lost.

The process was anything but transparent. "Cities’ Offers for Amazon Base Are Secrets Even to Many City Leaders": https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/technology/amazon-headqua...

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by Analemma_ on Thursday February 14, 2019 @12:31PM (#19163797)

You’re being tremendously naive about this. There was never any chance of Amazon locating to St. Louis or whatever: NYC and DC were always the only options on their radar. The entire “HQ2 search” malarkey was just to extract the maximum possible tax breaks from whichever one they chose.

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Re:Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus by kevin_b_er on Thursday February 14, 2019 @12:26PM (#19163760)

Amazon never intended to go with any of those "dark horses". It was just a play for a better deal elsewhere.

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