Open Letter from New York State Budget Director Robert Mujica Regarding Amazon

Re:Open Letter from New York State Budget Director Robert Mu... by bobthepanda on Sunday February 24, 2019 @03:20AM (#19237688)

The area has been built up with skyscrapers over the past decade, well before HQ2 had even been announced. Development in New York is not so quick that you could shovel a project through in the four months after the announcement.

New York's economy is plenty diverse. There's real estate and Wall Street, sure, but there's also legal services, advertising, media, health, education (NYC has the largest student population in the country), hospitality, tourism, etc. This is no one company town like Gary.

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Re:Open Letter from New York State Budget Director Robert Mu... by cjbprime on Sunday February 24, 2019 @11:56AM (#19239312)

I wouldn't describe LIC (or any part of Queens) as being "built up with skyscrapers" personally. I'd say there are a handful of tall apartment buildings.

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Re:Open Letter from New York State Budget Director Robert Mu... by asabjorn on Sunday February 24, 2019 @11:07AM (#19239073)

So you are saying Queens is in a great place and we do not need to create much more opportunity there?

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Re:Open Letter from New York State Budget Director Robert Mu... by bobthepanda on Sunday February 24, 2019 @04:16PM (#19240657)

There's certainly no need to beg for it.

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Re:Open Letter from New York State Budget Director Robert Mu... by asabjorn on Sunday February 24, 2019 @06:40PM (#19241408)

It’s not begging to take 9 out of every ten tax dollars to attract an opportunity.

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