It should be the largest investment project in the history of New York: The billion-dollar construction of the new Amazon headquarters. Now the Online retailer has cancelled his plans.
New York City, is the largest investment loses project in its history. The world’s largest retailer Amazon has surprisingly not advised to build his new split second headquarters in the New York borough of Long Island City is planned.
The biggest city in the USA would have had to receive by the settlement of the Amazon, for the 200 cities advertised in the United States and Canada, 25,000 new Jobs and more than 100,000 indirect with the Amazon settlement related jobs.
resistance to the construction
The technology group is led as a justification for the rejection of the growing resistance of local politicians and New York citizens against the billion project. Recently politicians had criticized the city and state of New York had promised to Amazon to a lot of subsidies, citizens were afraid of increasing Rents and traffic chaos.
Amazon announced, although according to surveys, 70 percent of New Yorkers would welcome a settlement of the second headquarters in the city, nevertheless, for such a billion project, the necessary atmosphere of trust is lacking due to the Opposition.
Graffito against Amazon in Long Island City,
Arlington as the new location
The online retailer remains had to share its second headquarters in addition to Headquarters in Seattle originally. In addition to New York, Arlington, Virginia, had received near the American capital in Washington DC the award.
The plans will not be affected by the retreat in New York. Currently, Amazon also stated, will not start a new location search for a location. Rather, it would expand existing facilities in Canada and the United States.
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