Awesome! Another accelerant towards gentrification and a huge strain on transportation infrastructure while Amazon gets a billion dollars in tax breaks. That's just what NYC needed. Thanks Cuomo!...
Awesome! Another accelerant towards gentrification and a huge strain on transportation infrastructure while Amazon gets a billion dollars in tax breaks. That's just what NYC needed. Thanks Cuomo! Thanks de Blasio!
And Crystal City is situated in a spot with a huge volume of traffic already and almost no room for infrastructural growth. I am not excited to live around here when HQ2 opens up. But I guess a...
And Crystal City is situated in a spot with a huge volume of traffic already and almost no room for infrastructural growth. I am not excited to live around here when HQ2 opens up. But I guess a lot can happen in the 8 years it'll take for it to actually open.
The least Amazon could do is pour some of their $19 billion cash reserves into the MTA to ensure you don't need to be in walking distance just to get to work reliably. The fact that a company...
The least Amazon could do is pour some of their $19 billion cash reserves into the MTA to ensure you don't need to be in walking distance just to get to work reliably.
The fact that a company which raked in over $3 billion in profit last year is getting billions in tax incentives corporate welfare annoys me to no end. Calling this a win is like Tump calling his North Korea "deal" a win.
Absolutely agreed. It's honestly disgusting how much the cities were pandering to Amazon, and how much they were offering for this. Sure, 50K jobs is a lot, but at what cost? The entire idea of...
The Amazon HQ2 saga had all the hallmarks of the gaudiest reality TV.
Absolutely agreed. It's honestly disgusting how much the cities were pandering to Amazon, and how much they were offering for this.
Sure, 50K jobs is a lot, but at what cost? The entire idea of tax incentives just bugs me. Amazon is a massive corporation, so why give them more leverage over the world?
Scott Galloway has been calling this whole process a ruse for quite a while. He talked about it in his speech at the Recode conference a couple of months ago. Here are his thoughts after the...
Awesome! Another accelerant towards gentrification and a huge strain on transportation infrastructure while Amazon gets a billion dollars in tax breaks. That's just what NYC needed. Thanks Cuomo! Thanks de Blasio!
edit: here's a post from one of my colleagues with more details on local opposition to this announcement.
And Crystal City is situated in a spot with a huge volume of traffic already and almost no room for infrastructural growth. I am not excited to live around here when HQ2 opens up. But I guess a lot can happen in the 8 years it'll take for it to actually open.
The least Amazon could do is pour some of their $19 billion cash reserves into the MTA to ensure you don't need to be in walking distance just to get to work reliably.
The fact that a company which raked in over $3 billion in profit last year is getting billions in
tax incentivescorporate welfare annoys me to no end. Calling this a win is like Tump calling his North Korea "deal" a win.Absolutely agreed. It's honestly disgusting how much the cities were pandering to Amazon, and how much they were offering for this.
Sure, 50K jobs is a lot, but at what cost? The entire idea of tax incentives just bugs me. Amazon is a massive corporation, so why give them more leverage over the world?
Updated the link to point to the official blog post about it, which has quite a bit more info.
Scott Galloway has been calling this whole process a ruse for quite a while. He talked about it in his speech at the Recode conference a couple of months ago.
Here are his thoughts after the announcement: http://info.l2inc.com/webmail/151121/172927765/1a5ae0d58e33a3ff365158c130992f8c6e9a10e7d7587fbd8fb46bf515cb4359
And one more - David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)'s thoughts: https://m.signalvnoise.com/dear-jeff-a6319829f92a
Yay, my rent will probably go up a minimum of $200.