It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town

Re:It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town by lmm on Friday February 22, 2019 @09:02AM (#19225319)

See what happens to the lots Amazon was going to build on. If they're sitting empty in a year or two, sure. If another company (or dozens of smaller companies) snaps them up and builds similar amounts of offices to what Amazon was planning, nah. I'm betting on the latter.

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Re:It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town by avbanks on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:08PM (#19227536)

Well you might be wrong, the land will now be redeveloped for condos 1,000 total.

" Patchett did toss out a scrap of news about what’s next for Long Island City. He said city land that had been slated for the tech giant’s corporate towers will instead become a mix of homes and businesses. That, after all, had been the original plan before New York decided to drop it and go a-courtin’ for the company. The new-old project will consist of a thousand residential units—two hundred and fifty of which will be affordable. The neighborhood will also gain 100,000 square feet of light manufacturing and industrial space, ground floor retail, a cultural center, a 600-seat middle school, and a one-acre park."

http://gothamist.com/2019/02/22/amazon_blame_game_patchett.p...

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Re:It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town by CPLX on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:56PM (#19228011)

> a thousand residential units—two hundred and fifty of which will be affordable. The neighborhood will also gain 100,000 square feet of light manufacturing and industrial space, ground floor retail, a cultural center, a 600-seat middle school, and a one-acre park.

Those things sound like a much better addition to the area than one Amazon.

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Re:It Started With a Jolt: How New York Became a Tech Town by untog on Friday February 22, 2019 @01:22PM (#19227685)

Given the state of housing in NYC that sounds like a far more desirable outcome than Amazon taking up all that space.

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