Breaking: Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus (Russia: housing, wealthy)
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Only stopped dramatically rising rents and dramatically devolving transit from accelerating.
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It's that very growth that helps to fund infrastructure improvements.
LOL, our infrastructure's been improving in tandem with the city's economic growth??
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Amazon isn't coming back - forget it.
We didn't want Amazon here in the first place -- why would we ever want it back??
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One shot opportunity, completely blown by myopic NIMBYs
Blown up by folks who would have been adversely affected (well, with the critical assistance of politicos who were just flabbergasted at Amazon's arrogance!).
Right! That's why many companies are choosing to take a hike out west and south and leave NY, on to lower cost, booming cities like Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, Denver, Dallas, etc...
Companies realize they ain't "gotta be" in New York anymore to do legit business. Costs are sky high and tons of hurdles to clear to open up shop.
If New York keeps this up though, they'll see businesses bail and offices will end up like the shuttered retail storefronts on 5th Ave, the West Village and Soho.
Nope. Anyone moving to China? Russia? Of course not.
NYC will be fine. Stop with the F.U.D. -- people ain't buying your shi't.
Right, income tax paid to the State AND to the City. It's a huge windfall that we got screwed out of because of a small group of vocal obsessive compulsive neurotic NIMBYs
You lie!
What, you think all that money is just gonna appear magically???
It's like batter life ratings...all dramatically exaggerated...dumbass!!!
Nope. The location of HQ2 is not where the issue is. They could’ve set up anywhere in the 5 boros and would’ve been met with the same or even LOUDER opposition.
The issue is, the deal was brokered by Cuomo and De Blasio without City Council input. This is the focal point of the kerfuffle. Council is livid because they had no say in the deal and probably wanted Amazon to line their pockets with cash. They had their own political interests at heart. That’s all this is
No, L.I.C. is the ONLY place in the city that makes sense for Amazon.
YOU PEOPLE CLEARLY HAVE NO BUSINESS SENSE, no wonder you buy Amazon's sales brochure at MSRP!!!
No serious economist supports corporate giveaways...even Mike Bloomberg didn't support this you, you mug!!!
Nyc will be fine right now but the future is up for debate
The future's good if we keep rejecting whoring ourselves in a race to the bottom.
Why are economists against corporate giveaways???
Why was even Mike Bloomberg against this corporate giveaway?????
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