For the past week meeting of the leadership of Amazon, discussed the options of rejecting the idea of the construction of the campus headquarters in new York and possible alternatives in other cities. The company has not yet rented and bought office space for his project in Queens and in long island city, making it easy to renege on their obligations.
This information is shared by The Washington Post, citing two people familiar with the source. The sources are anonymous, but experts admit that they can be at the top of Amazon, as the founder and CEO of Amazon Jeffrey P. Bezos, among other things, owns a newspaper The Washington Post.
So, it is argued, faced with a lack of understanding by the authorities of the state and city of new York and inflated according to Amazon the expectations of the authorities from NY possible deal for the construction of the campus, the company is considering options to implement their project elsewhere.
Recall that the project consisted in the construction of the headquarters of Amazon and campus of 25,000 thousand jobs in Queens and on long island. Initially, the project was named the economic triumph from the mouth of Governor Andrew Cuomo.
However, «currently, the project is heavily criticized by some elected officials and groups of protection of interests of shocked at the prospect of providing subsidies to giant the most valuable company in the world. Over the past two weeks, the state Senate put forward a Frank criticism of the project to the Council of state where he could potentially veto a deal, and members of the city Council for the second time aggressively challenged executives at the hearing, where activists chanted and whirled banners against the project. Finally, new to the U.S. Congress, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (DN.Y.), whose district borders with the proposed construction site, spoke against the project», — the Chairman of WP than so uptight and angry in Amazon.
Also NY was accused of slowness: «In contrast to Virginia, where elected leaders quickly passed a package of incentives for individual campus headquarters, and Tennessee, which adopted plans for a smaller facility, final approval from the state of new York is not expected until 2020».
While no statements aloud from Amazon for waiver NY was not allowing the state and cities to reassure yourself that this leak is an attempt at moral and psychological pressure on them by the commercial and financial giant, to achieve the best conditions of the transaction.
