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8A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2018 Amazon plans HQs in New York, DC suburb End of a long competition By JOSEPH PISANI Associated Press NEW YORK — Amazon has set its sights on two of the nation’s largest and most pow- erful metro areas, announc- ing Tuesday it had chosen a buzzy New York neighbor- hood and a suburb of Wash- ington, D.C., for its new East Coast headquarters. The Seattle-based online shopping giant ended its 14-month competition for sec- ond headquarters by selecting Long Island City, Queens, and Arlington, Virginia, as the joint winners. Both are waterfront communities away from over- crowded business districts, giving Amazon space to grow. Amazon could have picked a struggling city desperate for new jobs. Instead, it went with two of the nation’s largest and most powerful metropoli- tan areas. The reason Amazon gave: they are best suited to attract the high-skilled work- ers the company wants. The two cities will each get 25,000 jobs that Amazon says will be paid an average of $150,000 a year. The communities will pay for it: New York is fork- ing over more than $1.5 bil- lion in tax credits and other incentives, while Arlington is offering about a third of that — $573 million. The hope is that Amazon will attract other companies and ultimately boost the local economies. But while many see it as an oppor- tunity, not everyone is sold on the idea. “Offering massive corpo- rate welfare from scarce pub- AP Photo/Mark Lennihan A couple walks along Four Freedoms State Park on Roos- evelt Island in the Queens borough of New York. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren A front-page headline in The Seattle Times announces the news that Amazon.com has select- ed New York and Arlington, Va., as the joint winners of its search for a second headquarters. lic resources to one of the wealthiest corporations in the world at a time of great need in our state is just wrong,” said New York State Sen. Michael Gianaris and New York City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer, Democrats who repre- sent the Long Island City area, in a joint statement. Amazon, which started as an online bookstore two decades ago, has grown to a behemoth that had nearly $180 billion in revenue last year. It now owns well-known brands, including grocer Whole Foods and online shoe-seller Zap- pos. It also makes movies and TV shows, runs an advertising business and offers cloud com- puting services to corporations and government agencies. The company has more than 610,000 employees worldwide, making it the sec- ond largest U.S.-based, pub- licly-traded employer behind Walmart. But it was the prospect of 50,000 jobs that led 238 com- munities across North America to pitch Amazon on why they should be home to the next headquarters. New York is the nation’s financial and media power- house and has been working to attract technology companies. Google already has more than 7,000 workers in the city and, according to media reports, is looking to add 12,000 more in coming years. Arlington is directly across the Potomac River from Wash- ington, D.C. Large govern- ment contractors have offices and lobbying operations there. However, many of its 1980s- era office buildings have vacancies after thousands of federal employees moved else- where. Being near the nation’s capital could help Amazon with lobbying efforts as the company faces rising scrutiny from politicians. Amazon said it will spend $5 billion between both loca- tions on construction and other projects. The new outposts won’t appear overnight. Amazon said hiring at the two headquarters will start next year, but it could take a decade or more to build out its offices. Its New York location will be in a neighborhood of Queens that sits directly across from midtown Manhattan, while its Virginia offices will be in a part of Arlington that local politicians and Amazon are calling National Landing, a made-up area around Reagan National Airport that encom- passes Crystal City and Poto- mac Yard. Virginia state Sen. Adam Ebbin, a Democrat who rep- resents the area where Ama- zon’s new headquarters will be located, said that afford- able housing may be an issue, but the announcement is a wel- AP Photo/Susan Walsh A view of Crystal City, Va. come development that will help increase the area’s tax base to help ease overcrowd- ing in schools and address other pressing needs. Amazon said it will refer to the new locations as headquar- ters, even though with 25,000 jobs each, they would have fewer workers than its Seat- tle hometown, which houses more than 45,000 employees. Seattle will remain one of Amazon’s three headquar- ters, and the company said that senior executives will also be based in the two new locations. It plans to hold companywide events at the new locations, including shareholder meetings. There were early signs that Amazon had its sights set on New York and northern Vir- ginia. Among its 20 final- ists, the company had selected two locations in the New York metro area and three in the D.C. area. Plus, CEO and founder Jeff Bezos has a home in Washington D.C., and he personally owns The Washing- ton Post newspaper. While it didn’t win the main prize, Nashville, Tennessee, won’t go empty handed. Ama- zon said the finalist city will be home to a new Amazon office that will create 5,000 jobs, focused on customer delivery and supply chain. Those jobs will also be paid on average $150,000 a year, Amazon said. 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