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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.
AP reporters Alan Suder-
man in Richmond, Virginia,
Matthew Barakat in Arlington
County, Virginia, and Karen
Matthews in New York contrib-
uted to this report.
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