BREAKING: Amazon to Pick NYC, Northern Virginia for Split HQ2

November 12, 2018 | Bethany Erickson | | Breaking News

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos (photo courtesy Flickr)

It started with 238 cities vying for one second headquarters for online retail giant Amazon, but if reports Monday night are correct, it’s now down to two cities that will split the headquarters — and neither city is Dallas.

Instead, the headquarters will be divided between Long Island City, New York, and Crystal City, Virginia, the Wall Street Journal reported late Monday.

The $5 billion HQ2 will reportedly divide the projected 50,000 employees needed between two sites. Prognosticators with inside sources have reported for more than a week that Amazon would likely split the headquarters between the two cities. Crystal City is a suburb of Arlington, Virginia, and Long Island City is in Queens, New York.

We’ll have more tomorrow, when the company is expected to officially announce its decision, including reaction from local leaders.

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Bethany Erickson

Bethany Erickson lives in a 1961 Fox and Jacobs home with her husband, a second-grader, and Conrad Bain the dog. If she won the lottery, she'd by an E. Faye Jones home.
She's taken home a few awards for her writing, including a Gold award for Best Series at the 2018 National Association of Real Estate Editors journalism awards, a 2018 Hugh Aynesworth Award for Editorial Opinion from the Dallas Press Club, and a 2019 award from NAREE for a piece linking Medicaid expansion with housing insecurity.
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5 Comments

Jon Anderson on November 12, 2018 at 10:02 pm

How soon we forget. LOL
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https://candysdirt.com/2018/11/06/media-reports-amazon-hq2-being-split-between-dc-virginia-and-queens-new-york/

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- Bethany Erickson on November 12, 2018 at 10:04 pm
  
  Yeah yeah.
  
  New story. As of tonight. Didn’t forget. 😉
  
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Candy Evans on November 13, 2018 at 11:16 am

Would have cost us 2 billion to get 3 billion…

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- Jon Anderson on November 13, 2018 at 2:43 pm
  
  Exactly. Corporate welfare. Now Dallas needs to spend the monies it wanted to lavish on Amazon on its citizens.
  
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  - Cody Farris on November 13, 2018 at 10:43 pm
    
    Exactly, Jon… and by the way, this was a cluster from the beginning. Even if we had been one of the cities chosen, it would have been kind of difficult to pare back the incentives Dallas was offering after finding out we were getting only 25,000 jobs instead of 50,000. One has to wonder if there was some grand scheme here all along: dangle the carrot, have incentives thrown at you, offer half a carrot, expect the same incentives, blah blah blah.
    
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