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“We will not be using the Opportunity Zone on this project,” Holly Sullivan, head of economic development at Amazon, told the City Council in a Wednesday hearing.
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Doesn't matter. Those who are opposed will remain opposed. It's not about the tax credits or any other incentive the company would use. They're just against it, same as they would be against anything.
https://www.courthousenews.com/nyc-c...for-queens-hq/
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“Would you have come to Long Island City if you weren’t getting $3 billion in subsidies?” Council Speaker Corey Johnson asked Amazon representatives bluntly at the onset of Wednesday’s hearing, reprising an argument he made at the first hearing in December.
Johnson, who announced Monday that he’s considering running for mayor in 2021, said that he’d been warned by Seattle residents about Amazon’s deceptive practices and damage to small business.
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Of course this grandstanding clown will run for mayor. Amazon got offered much more in incentives from different cities, but this clown thinks this was Amazon's main draw to the city.