HQ2 was going to be in Queens, not Manhattan. Even if HQ2 had gone ahead they might still have expanded their space in Manhattan right? (As others pointed out t

HQ2 was going to be in Queens, not Manhattan. Even if HQ2 had gone ahead they might still have expanded their space in Manhattan right? (As others pointed out this is more like 1-2K employees rather than the 25K of HQ2) But frankly the HQ2 pullout puzzled me from the beginning. They backed out of the deal before it had even been turned down by the city or state as I understand it. I actually wondered at the time if they had just re-evaluated the plan of splitting HQ2 and realized they didn’t need to expand that much in two different east coast cities after all, and used the local complaints as an opportunity to back out.