Amazon Drops NYC As New HQ2 Location; Virginia Will Now Be Sole Location
NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon dropped New York City as one of its new headquarter locations Thursday and said it will not search for another.
Amazon chose the National Landing neighborhood of the D.C. suburb Arlington, Virginia as one its locations as well as Long Island City in Queens. There's a plan for a new operations center in Nashville.
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"We do not intend to reopen the HQ2 search at this time. We will proceed as planned in Northern Virginia and Nashville, and we will continue to hire and grow across our 17 corporate offices and tech hubs in the U.S. and Canada," Amazon said in a statement on their blog.
Amazon said they can only build in areas where they have "positive, collaborative relationships with state and local elected officials." They didn't feel welcome in Long Island City, according to a statement on their blog.
How this will affect the Virginia development is unknown at this time. Stay with WJZ on this developing story.
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