hehe https://hellgatenyc.com/amazon-broken-hearted-queens

#Queens #Amazon #HQ2 #NYC

@anildash Remind me, again, how many public dollars did cities and states around the US throw at #Amazon in the form of tax breaks, public subsidies and other giveaways — a.k.a. economic #incentives (😂 ) — to win #HQ2 (money that could probably... possibly... definitely have been spent in better fashion, BTW, to boost #equity and economic development)?

@itnewsbot Remind me, again, how many public dollars did cities and states around the US throw at #Amazon in the form of tax breaks, public subsidies and other giveaways — a.k.a. economic #incentives — to win #HQ2 (money that could probably have been spent in better fashion, BTW, to boost #equity and economic development)?

Color me “shocked” 😂

All that shilling for #Bezos didn’t pay off huh Virginia…

#Amazon #HQ2 #PentagonCity #NationalLanding #CrystalCity #Virginia

https://wapo.st/3mpHhSB

Huge news for #Virginia... Funny that #WaPo (owned by #Bezos ) doesn't have any news about this yet... https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-03/amazon-hq2-pauses-construction-amid-layoffs-remote-work#xj4y7vzkg #amazon #hq2

Are we still telling ourselves HQ2 was anything but con?
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RT @SaportaReport@twitter.com
#Atlanta was among the cities in the running for #Amazon #HQ2. One potential factor in the decision – as David Pendered wrote in February – was the city’s relative scarcity of college-educated #millennials
https://buff.ly/2EIUUVO
https://twitter.com/SaportaReport/status/1078781644004302854

Having lived there, I went into this article scoffing at the idea that anyone could call Crystal City "funky", with the possible exception of Freddie's. They do call out a few other gems, though. I think they'll do fine with #Amazon, given that they managed to survive having most of the jobs in the area move out.
https://wamu.org/story/18/11/27/as-amazon-looms-crystal-city-business-owners-want-to-preserve-the-neighborhoods-funky-side/
#NoVA #Virginia #HQ2 #CrystalCity

Sadly, I'll go ahead and predict that one of the lessons of #NationalLanding will be that if you have the money and political connects that @amazon@twitter.com and @jbgsmith@twitter.com have, you actually can make "fetch" happen. #HQ2