Amazon to move it’s second headquarters to Queens.[update 2/14 : Amazon cancels its plans.

[Kyle Barker]

 

[GunRanger]

Mofos really think the job training amazon was planning was gonna lead to the actual well paying jobs

Amazon was partnering with CUNY to build a pipeline that would lead from graduati g to a job there


And there was going to be thousands of well paying 32BJ union jobs in the campus. The union even supported the deal.


These people are clueless

 

[Optimus Prime]

meanwhile DMV is salivating
VA already had an additional incentives built in to their deal to give more office space to Amazon

and PG County thinks they are back in the running asking for meetings with Amazon

 

[SleezyBigSlim]

Amazon trolled NY hard

 

[duckbutta]

Stay out of DFW please

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[SleezyBigSlim]

ATL's problem is zoning not allowing density.

You're wrong.

Density is the devil for cities. This is how you get high property taxes and rent. See San Francisco or Austin. San Fran is surrounded by water they have a reason to be dense. Austin is in the middle of big ass Texas with nothing around it and yet they build for density and the excuse they use is they don't want urban sprawl like Houston. Houston doesn't have zoning and does not build for density. Houston is one of the more affordable if not the most affordable big city due to this.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Density is the devil for cities. This is how you get high property taxes and rent. See San Francisco or Austin. San Fran is surrounded by water they have a reason to be dense. Aust is in the middle of big was Texas with nothing around it and yet they build for density and the excuse they use is they don't want urban sprawl like Houston. Houston doesn't have zoning and does not build for density. Houston is one of the more affordable if not the most affordable big city due to this.

San Francisco has no land. Austin and Atlanta does.

ZONING is the issue.

 

[Ethnic Vagina Finder]

The problem is Amazon was acting like it was a 5 star recruit or a superstar free agent, making cities put to get packages literally begging them to come.

But I look at it like this.


Why would a company that at one point had a $1 TRILLION DOLLAR valuation, need tax credits

Most of Amazon's delivery drivers are contractors so they're already saving in payroll taxes and benefits.

 

[invalid]

meanwhile DMV is salivating
VA already had an additional incentives built in to their deal to give more office space to Amazon

and PG County thinks they are back in the running asking for meetings with Amazon

Chicago too. I think most cities are trying to re-energize conversations with Amazon.

 

[88m3]

NYC is the epicenter for finance, legal, advertising, publishing, journalism and fashion industries etc. and has a very healthy amount of tech, engineering and architecture jobs. I’m missing some industries too. If you can’t find a job there something’s wrong. The problem is affordability. Not jobs.

tech is only around 10% of the city's work force, I've seen the stats

more opportunity and a more diversified workforce would be a good thing

 

[Rell Lauren]

So will NY brehs boycott Amazon moving forward?

I don't use Amazon as is. The main issue of why this deal didn't go through continues to evade people. Like talking to a brick wall.

 

[satam55]

@dtownreppin214 Is Dallas gonna get this?

 

[Marc Spector]

I think the effects were overblown.

Why?

There was NOTHING in seattle before amazon compared to what it is now.

NYC doesn't have that issue. Just like DC/NOVA. Theres stuff already there.

People got scared of gentification without realizing that SOMETIMES people just gotta move!

Everyone migrates.

Theres a reason you were born where you were born and theres a reason some places get re-investment.

We gotta start controlling our own destiny out here man...i'm tired of some of this low brow thinking.

I dont think people mind the moving part, especially non new yorkers.

It's the moving and contributing nothing back to infrastructure and tax dollars part that's the issue.

And to add insult those fakkits will threaten to move If even a word comes about taxing them.

Its greed beyond measure. And I dont blame a city telling them eat a dikk if they don't plan on taking steps to give back to a city in any meaningful way.

 

[Goat poster]

I think the effects were overblown.

Why?

There was NOTHING in seattle before amazon compared to what it is now.

NYC doesn't have that issue. Just like DC/NOVA. Theres stuff already there.

People got scared of gentification without realizing that SOMETIMES people just gotta move!

Everyone migrates.

Theres a reason you were born where you were born and theres a reason some places get re-investment.

We gotta start controlling our own destiny out here man...i'm tired of some of this low brow thinking.

Why are you caping for a trillion dollar company to move to a city and pay ZERO tax?

Why are you caping for a trillion dollar company to raise the cost of living even more in the most unaffordable city?


Your argument is even worse considered the city is already flush with industry and doesn’t NEED Amazon like a rust belt area would.

Your making ZERO sense bro

 

[Miles Davis]

I just don’t know about people anymore, just ignorant as fukk. This wasn’t gonna do anything but hurt black folk. Rent already ridiculous.