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Amazon didn’t withdraw from NYC. They still have around 5k employees here. Meanwhile Google is significantly expanding their NYC offices and nobody had to bribe
by code4tee 8y ago
Amazon didn’t withdraw from NYC. They still have around 5k employees here. Meanwhile Google is significantly expanding their NYC offices and nobody had to bribe them to do it.
- aetherson 8y agoAre you sure about that? Giving tax breaks to large employers is pretty standard practice. What was unusual about the Amazon debacle was how public it was.
- graeme 8y agoAmazon's still expanding in nyc too. But....not 25,000 employees. Does Google have 25,000 employees in NYC?
- DelaneyM 8y agoAt its current rate of growth it will by the time Amazon would have.
- coredog64 8y agoPretty sure Google is eligible for the same Empire State development grants that made up $2.5B of the $3B that Amazon was going to get.
- vonmoltke 8y agoActually, the city credits (which constituted about $1.3B) are not available for businesses in Manhattan south of 96th St. That said, Lower Manhattan has its own incentive programs. That said, I'm really getting annoyed at the people who are both ignorant of how Amazon was going to get its $3B in credits and assuming that other companies, like Google, are getting none simply because nobody talks about it.