NewYork City and Northern Virginia will be the second and third headquarters ofAmazon. Amazon had announced that it would invest $5 billion to build a new headquarters.
Amazon will announce the location of its new headquarters as soon as Tuesday,and other cities may also become important office locations. The finalizationof the location of Amazon is new headquarters heralds the end of a more thanyear-long public war. The battle began with 238 candidate cities, but it endedunexpectedly with the establishment of new headquarters in two cities.
Amazon will hand over its new headquarters to the Crystal City community inLong Island, New York, and Arlington County, Virginia. These two sites arefacing the center of the big city. Amazon's decision actually gave the companya place in all three coastal cities.
In September 2017, Amazon began locating its new headquarters in North America,aiming to establish a second headquarters equivalent to the current Seattleheadquarters. Amazon says the new headquarters will create about 50,000 jobsand attract billions of dollars in investment. Amazon reduced the number offinalists to 20 in January, then asked for lots of data and launched a two-daywhirlwind field trip. In the meantime, candidate cities are trying to impressAmazon's economic development team.
This month there were reports of late talks between Amazon and crystal city inNorthern Virginia, Dallas, Texas, and New York City. Meanwhile, Amazon'sconversations with Raleigh, Denver and Toronto in North Carolina have cooled.
A week ago, Amazon's new headquarters site received unexpected news. Amazondecided to divide its second headquarters equally between two cities ratherthan just one, the report said. The change comes as Amazon executives arguethat spreading office space between two cities could help recruit more toptalent. By equalizing the size of its new headquarters, Amazon may be able tomitigate potential problems in housing, transportation and other areas byadding tens of thousands of employees
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