Amazon signs lease for space at Rentar Plaza in Middle Village, etc. (Ridge: buying, live)

[Aeran]

Amazon is a coming!

https://qns.com/story/2020/02/26/ama...iddle-village/

Amazon has signed a new lease for space in Middle Village. Amazon is taking roughly 300,000 square feet of space in Rentar Plaza, located at 66-26 Metropolitan Ave.

Amazon is also in talks for a giant distribution center in Maspeth at the old Cascades Containerboard factory on Grand Avenue.

Additionally, Amazon signed a lease in December for 335,000 square feet on Manhattan’s Far West Side, enough space for 1,500 employees and the corporation is also considering buying the Lord & Taylor building from WeWork for nearly $1 billion.

[OyCrumbler]

They are definitely expanding big, both in distribution centers and corporate jobs though it’s important to make the distinction.

Does anyone here remember the timeline for the number of corporate jobs HQ2 had to hit to hold on to its incentives package?

[Javawood]

Imagine if Middle Village had corporate jobs. I'd work there and snatch up a cheap (affordable?) place in Ridgewood asap

[SeventhFloor]

Originally Posted by Javawood

Imagine if Middle Village had corporate jobs. I'd work there and snatch up a cheap (affordable?) place in Ridgewood asap

Ridgewood? Cheap?

[Javawood]

Originally Posted by SeventhFloor

Ridgewood? Cheap?

Comparatively to where I'm at. I quickly put (affordable?) to match reality.

[OyCrumbler]

Originally Posted by Javawood

Imagine if Middle Village had corporate jobs. I'd work there and snatch up a cheap (affordable?) place in Ridgewood asap

It’d make a lot more sense for companies to do so if the Triboro Rx line was up.

[Honda718]

Likely where Toys R Us use to be.

[dfc99]

The Amazon HQ would have been good for Queens and NYC. No large company will ever locate HQ type jobs in an outer borough again. An Amazon distribution center will create many jobs but not as much as their 'HQ2' would have.



Amazon just rented out a 450,000 sqft building on S.I. next to their existing 855,000 sqft building in the Matrix Park development. When the first Amazon facility was opening in 2018 the usually lethargic MTA rushed the extension of the creaky S40/S90 bus to Matrix Park.



https://www.silive.com/news/2020/01/...eliveries.html

[NJ Brazen_3133]

Is this for warehouse, or offices?

Seriously, Amazon is turning into Brick and Mortar. They may as well save money, by letting people come to the warehouse to look for their own stuff.

[Aeran]

Originally Posted by NJ Brazen_3133

They may as well save money, by letting people come to the warehouse to look for their own stuff.

Now, that would be nice. It's already come to that with building lobbies becoming strewn with Amazon boxes.