Thursday, February 14, 2019

Amazon Drops New York HQ2 Plans

Amazon said on Thursday that it is dropping plans to put its HQ2 in New York City, after strong, anti-Amazon sentiment in the city. Amazon had selected Long Island as one of two sites for its second headquarters, which it has said it would be an equal second headquarters to its current location in Seattle. Amazon said that "a number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence" in New York. According to the New York Times, the opposition of both those politicians, as well as local unions, convinced Amazon to drop its HQ2 plans.