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https://citylimits.org/2018/12/18/im...s-subway-ride/

Imagining an Amazon Worker’s Subway Ride





By Anay Cortes and Jeanmarie Evelly
December 18, 2018


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To test out what a future Amazon worker’s potential subway commute might be like, City Limits rode from Manhattan to the Long Island City waterfront site where the company’s headquarters is planned. Starting just after 8 a.m. in Chelsea—one of the neighborhoods that’s seen the largest number of new housing units since 2000, according to NYU’s Furman Center—a reporter caught the train at 14th Street and 7th Avenue, where the first uptown 2 train was a bit too crowded to board. About three minutes later, a 3 train arrived with plenty of room to spare, heading uptown at about 8:08 a.m.

The 3 train pulled into the Times Square station at 8:14 a.m., where the reporter then transferred to a Queens-bound 7 train about four minutes later. The 7 itself wasn’t very crowded, with passengers filling up only about every other seat in one particular car. The train got to the Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue station in Hunters Point at 8:23 a.m., where the arrivals platform was more or less empty, though a steady line of people could be seen heading into the Manhattan-bound side of the station.
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From there, it’s about a 12 minute walk up Vernon Boulevard to the site of the future Amazon headquarters. The route includes the busy commercial stretch of Vernon, past shops, bars and restaurants, but becomes more industrial as you head north, where landmarks include a vacant warehouse and a taxi garage. Anable Basin, the East River inlet between 46th Avenue and 44th Drive around which the Amazon campus is expected to be built, is home to more warehouses, a shuttered restaurant, a Department of Education facility and a waterfront bar.

So, even having missed a train, this reporter arrived at her imaginary high-tech workplace by 8:35 or so. Granted, City Limits was just one imaginary worker – our 24,999 or more Amazon colleagues were not in the equation. The impact on the transit system will depend, of course, on where those workers live. Our commute from Manhattan out to western Queens ran counter to the morning rush. Had we started elsewhere in Queens as part of the a.m. tide, the ride would have been different.

In addition to the 7 train station at Vernon Boulevard-Jackson Avenue, employees at the future location will be a short walk to the NYC Ferry landing in Gantry Plaza State Park, and about a 10-12 minute walk to Court Square, where they could catch the G, E, M and 7 trains.
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Since Amazon announced Queens as one of the locations for their future second headquarters, subway commuters have been expressing their concerns about the deal, with residents worried how the influx of new people the site’s expected to bring could impact their local train lines.

“I’m afraid to think about that,” says Long Island City resident Kathleen O’Brien, 33, about the possible increase in overcrowding. “Right now, I feel the 7 is at capacity because of what it looks like at rush hour. So I’m nervous to think about all these extra people that are coming.”
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The MTA, however, says the system can handle the potential uptick in riders. In an email, a spokesman for the agency pointed to the recent installation of Communications-Based Train Controlalong the 7 line, which increases capacity and reliability; they plan on upgrading the E/F/M/R corridor too.

Other Queens subway lines will be seeing additional service beginning in April, as part of a plan to accommodate the L train shutdown: the 7 is getting 14 additional round trips per day, the G is getting 62, the M is getting 16, the F is getting 12, and E is getting 26, according to the MTA.

“The bottom line is that a major reason Amazon chose LIC is because we can provide the needed transit capacity,” MTA Spokesman Shams Tareksays. “As Transit President Byford and Acting Chair Ferrer said at the last MTA Board meeting, we have the capacity for Amazon and we’ll monitor for any schedule changes that might be needed.”
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Indeed, even if the entire system is capable of absorbing the Amazon riders (if all 25,000 workers took the subway, it’d boost daily average weekday ridership by about one-half of one-percent), the impact—good, bad or both—is likely to be felt keenly at local stations and by long-time local riders. The Vernon Boulevard stop on the 7 train was already one of the city’s busiest, with 4.8 million riders in 2017, the 100th busiest of the city’s 424 stations. Court Square ranked 59th, with more than 7 million.



I'm still not sure why everyone keeps harping on the 7 line, as if that's the only subway line through LIC, and every Amazon worker would be commuting from Flushing or anywhere else along that line in particular.


This crop of the subway map shows the 7 line in its entirety, but it's not as if it's the only way to Court Square.



https://www.justapack.com/the-new-yo...subway-system/





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https://www.ferry.nyc/routes-and-sch...rry-route-map/
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Imagining an Amazon Worker’s Subway Ride...
An absolute nightmare, like everyone else.
     
     
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I can imagine it already. 7 am.... an overpacked train cart that exceeds maximum occupancy with everyone standing as all the seats are taken. Within that cart, some Spanish guy is playing his music at 7 am really loud. All within the same cart, some couple arguing about Palestine and Israel.

When they arrive at the station, they find that the escalator is broken... and has been broken for the last 7 years forcing them to walk up the stairs on a crowded, crisp, cold Winter day.

That's roughly your typical subway commute, at 7 am. Throw in the poor service at Hudson News, and you've got yourself a good start to your morning.
     
     
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Old Posted Dec 19, 2018, 4:52 AM
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^ If it's going to be that horrible, it makes you wonder why any Amazon employee wouldn't just buy up one of the many coming apartments in short walking distance.



http://gothamist.com/2018/12/18/amazon_bqx_myth.php

Amazon Can't Close The BQX's Giant Budget Hole





BY NEIL DEMAUSE
DEC 18, 2018


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Almost from the second Amazon announced it would be opening a new campus on the Long Island City waterfront, talk began that this could be just the thing to revive Mayor Bill de Blasio's long-stalled Brooklyn-Queens Connector streetcar project. Friends of the BQX, the developer-funded nonprofit set up to promote the light rail line, issued an immediate press release declaring that Amazon's arrival meant it was time to "fast-track" the project. Word of a city-backed "infrastructure fund" for the project's environs sparked speculation that some of that cash could be dedicated to helping revive the streetcar. And last week, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz threw in a demand that Jeff Bezos should pay out of his own pocket for the streetcar — which Katz redubbed "QBX" in a bit of pandering to borough pride.

A look at the numbers, though, shows that even if Amazon's arrival has perked up interest in BQX, it won't do much to solve the project's biggest problem: money. Nearly three years after it was first announced, the streetcar plan is still saddled with a budget hole in the billions, and no easy way to fill that gap.
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While Amazon's presence may heighten interest in adding more Long Island City transit options, it won't do much to feed the value capture kitty. If anything, Amazon-spawned development may boost waterfront property values to the point where no amount of scenic trolleys can increase tax revenues any further. “There’s not a whole lot of value to be ‘created’ in these areas where land is already very expensive, near its maximum value the market will pay,” Fischer tells Gothamist.

The one potential pool of cash that the Amazon deal would provide is that "infrastructure fund," which according to the city's Memorandum of Understanding with the company can be used for "streets, sidewalks, utility relocations, environmental remediation, public open space, transportation, schools and signage" elsewhere in the neighborhood. As Amazon won't pay property taxes on its state-owned land, the company will instead make payments in lieu of property taxes, or PILOTs, to the city; half of these, in turn, will be siphoned off and placed in the infrastructure fund.




https://licpost.com/questions-raised...-rezoning-plan

Questions Raised Over Plaxall Site in State-Run Amazon Plan




An outline of the sites making up the General Project Plan as part of Amazon’s headquarters project. Amazon plans on building over the sites outlined in red. The site outlined in green, known as “block C” will move through the upzoning process despite not being part of Amazon’s headquarters.


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The topic was among many brought up during last week’s city council oversight hearing, titled “exposing the closed-door process” in part, for its goal in revealing details about how the Amazon HQ2 decision came to be.

Speaker Corey Johnson laid out the provisions for Plaxall’s “block C,” bordered by 46th Avenue and 46th Road along 5th Street, that were worked into the Amazon deal during the hearing: The block’s commercial space allowance, for one, would increase to about four times more that what is currently allowed under zoning.

The upzoning, meanwhile, would be at the hands of the state, with no city council review.

“Not only is Plaxall getting Amazon as a tenant on land they own,” Johnson said at the hearing. “They are also getting a windfall in the form of a huge upzoning without having to lift a finger and work with the city council.”

Johnson also said that the increased commercial allowance in the non-Amazon block to about 800,000 square feet translates to “an office building with roughly the same floor area as the Chrysler Building.” But any construction on the Plaxall site, however, will be limited to a height that is roughly a third of the Manhattan skyscraper’s.
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James Patchett, president of the Economic Development Corporation, the city agency involved in the HQ2 process, said the Plaxall block was added to the state’s General Project Plan process because of prior plans for the Anable Basin site and a desire to keep continuity.

Last year, at around the same time Amazon embarked on its HQ2 search, Plaxall announced its massive plan to rezone 15 acres of land at Anable Basin—where it owns several plots—and potentially bring about up to 5,000 apartments and thousands of square feet of commercial and manufacturing space.

The Plaxall properties under the now-scrapped rezoning plan included what is now referred to as “block C,” along with the two parcels where Amazon will build part of its offices.

“We felt that it still made sense to keep them as part of a single approval process,” Patchett said, who later added, “We made it possible for [Plaxall] to build commercial space, which we very much hope will be related to the project in the sense that we hope that other companies will locate near them.”

It’s unclear, however, what Plaxall’s exact development plans are for this site, but the result will either be a project with more than 500,000 square feet of residential space or up to 800,000 square feet of commercial space.
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Criticism of the property’s inclusion, while eliciting seething statements during the hearing, already began heating up in the days after Amazon’s official HQ2 announcement last month. Community Board 2’s Land Use Committee, for example, raised questions about the extra Plaxall parcel in the mix when deliberating over Amazon’s project in its Nov. 20 meeting.

“There’s no reason for them to be part of the GPP,” said Lisa Deller, land use chair, said at the meeting. “That’s favored treatment, certainly.”

But in response to Van Bramer’s comments, the EDC said it rejects the premise that the addition of the Plaxall block in the process is unethical and a public good to the developer.

An EDC spokesperson, echoing Patchett’s statements at the hearing, said the decision constitutes smart urban planning and responds to demands heard from the community over implementing comprehensive planning at the waterfront.

It also allows for Plaxall and Amazon to figure out whether the property will be needed for expansion or related uses, the spokesperson said.
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Old Posted Dec 20, 2018, 4:50 AM
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https://qns.com/story/2018/12/19/ama...estern-queens/

With Amazon on the way to LIC, Maloney calls for more rail service and infrastructure in western Queens


By Bill Parry
December 19, 2018


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...“I love jobs,” Maloney said. “While there are many benefits to being a place people want to come, there are also many challenges to fast growth and abrupt changes. We need to work with the city and the state to make sure that this community gets the type of investments that are needed in a fast-growing neighborhood.”

“I’m glad that the mayor announced $180 million in new investments, including the aging, overworked, overwhelmed sewer system — but that’s just the beginning,” the congresswoman added.

As Long Island City has recently added more residential units than any other ZIP code in the country, with another 6,500 new units coming on line in the next few years, Maloney knows there is much more to be done on the neighborhood’s infrastructure.

“We need to make sure we have an integrated transportation system that brings people where they need to go — not just between Manhattan and Queens but within Long Island City,” she said. “But we need to make sure that we get the promised Sunnyside stop to make it easier for people in this neighborhood to commute and to bring workers to jobs in this major business center. I am enthusiastic about the idea of a Grand Central East that will make use of the fact that the LIRR, NJ Transit and Amtrak already come into the Sunnyside Rail Yards — there should be a station here with stops for all three systems.”



https://untappedcities.com/2018/12/1...ns-hq2-in-lic/

Abandoned NYC Wedding Hall To Be Replaced by Amazon’s HQ2 in LIC





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12/19/2018


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One of the best known buildings to fall within the HQ2 footprint is the Water’s Edge wedding hall and restaurant, a site that has been abandoned since its closure in 2015.

Water’s Edge opened in 1983, and for the next thirty-two years played host to an uncounted number of weddings, parties and power dinners. At the time of its opening, Long Island City was still primarily a warehousing and manufacturing district. The venue offered private access to stunning views of the Manhattan skyline that were hard to find anywhere else along this shoreline at the time. The restaurant reportedly cost three million dollars to construct. It was built on top of two permanently moored barges just off the rocky shoreline. Specializing in seafood, Water’s Edge offered entrees for $20 dollars, which is nearly $50 in 2018 dollars.

To compensate for the gritty neighborhood location, they offered a free shuttle bus service to midtown. They also claimed the restaurant was a mere five minutes from Manhattan. Perhaps that was the case in 1985, but you’d be hard pressed to make that time in today’s traffic clogged New York City.
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The summer after Water’s Edge closed I ventured over to see if it was accessible. While the front doors were padlocked, the perimeter around the building was wide open and un-fenced. At the rear of the building, I found several windows were smashed open. Once inside, it was readily apparent that “scrappers” (those who target disused buildings to steal copper wiring from them) had pilfered the place. Ceiling tiles were ripped out of place and lights dangled at crazy angles. Despite this destruction, much of the restaurant was surprisingly intact. The bar was even stocked with some leftover alcohol.

Abandoned locations draw a particular type of visitors. They usually fall into four categories: scrappers and thieves looking to steal whatever is left of value, graffiti artists looking for a unique place to paint with decreased risk of arrest, photographers looking to get some unique ‘decay porn’ shots, and homeless people. Little did I know, today would be a day I ran into one such person.
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I proceeded up to the second floor and literally stopped in my tracks halfway across the large, empty room. At the far side of the room, I spotted a man laying nearly naked on the floor. He had a small camp for himself set up in front of an open door to a balcony facing the Queensboro Bridge. My first thought was, “Is he ok?” Thus, I listened closely and could hear him faintly snoring away on this hot summer afternoon. I decided against disrupting his blissful sleep, and instead took a photo or two before leaving. Here was this seemingly homeless person living in an abandoned restaurant with some of the best views of Manhattan to be found anywhere in the city. He was at once perhaps the poorest New Yorker in terms of monetary wealth, yet the richest in terms of living rent free in a safe dry space with a view that many pay thousands of dollars in rent for every month.




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The restaurant is reportedly locked and fenced up as of late 2018. The homeless resident, much like it’s prior owners, was probably forced out. Locals speculate that the restaurant building itself is doomed, while the barge it sits on would make a likely location for Bezo’s helipad. Time will tell if it brings him the same bad karma as prior residents of this artificially created property.
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https://nypost.com/2018/12/19/de-bla...off-on-it/amp/

De Blasio calls Amazon’s helipad ‘ridiculous’ after signing off on it

By Rich Calder
December 19, 2018


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Mayor Bill de Blasio said Wednesday night that a private helipad to service Amazon’s proposed Long Island City headquarters doesn’t fly with him – even though he signed off on the controversial perk.

“The helicopter pad bothers all of us,” de Blasio said during a town hall meeting at Hunter College in Midtown. “The optics are ridiculous. I agree with you but … I think in the end New Yorkers are very practical.”
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De Blasio was responding to several members of the audience who were not only peeved about the private helipad but also that the online retail giant is circumventing the usual approval process through the City Council.

Amazon’s development deal with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and de Blasio includes a helipad that would be off-limits to anyone outside the company — including government officials. But in a concession to minimize noise pollution and other disruptions around its proposed East River office complex, the e-commerce giant has agreed to no more than 10 whirlybird landings a month, and to keep all flights over water, according to City Hall.

City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, a staunch foe of the Amazon plan, said “Hell, no!” last month when asked if Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos should get to chopper in for visits.

“He should take the E train or the 7 train to Court Square and get off.”




https://www.crainsnewyork.com/transp...qx-backers-say

Waterfront building binge bolsters case for BQX, backers say
Report by troubled tram’s booster group argues that growth necessitates more transit options





JOE ANUTA
December 20, 2018


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Roughly 20 million square feet of new office space is being planned near the proposed Brooklyn-Queens Connector’s 11-mile route, according to a report released Thursday by the troubled tram's booster group. That increase, the organization argued, strengthens the case for fully funding the waterfront streetcar, which would run between Astoria and Gowanus.
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The biggest concentration of planned commercial space is in Long Island City, where Amazon plans to build at least 4 million square feet for its new headquarters. In addition to other projects in the neighborhood, smaller clusters are planned in Williamsburg, Downtown Brooklyn and the Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is expected to be home to 20,000 jobs by 2020 and is poorly served by transit. All told, the group expects the supply of office space along the corridor to grow to 58 million square feet in just over a decade. That would represent 10% of the city’s current stock.
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"Amazon’s decision to open a Long Island City campus underscores just how essential a role the BQX will play in delivering workers—many living in areas sorely underserved by quality mass transit—to jobs and workforce development opportunities along the corridor, which will be home to more commercial space than the downtowns of Los Angeles, Philadelphia or Boston by 2029,” a spokesman said.
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The report broke out a list of 43 developments planned for the short-term or long-term or are speculative and might not come to fruition. The largest of the bunch is Amazon’s proposed headquarters, which the group assumed would grow to the maximum size of nearly 8 million square feet, followed by a large Tishman Speyer office project and a new development from Silvercup Studios, both in Long Island City.
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Why do I support Amazon's arrival? Two reasons: The past and the future
Critics should consider the fate of cities that reject change



Seth Bornstein
December 21, 2018


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I recently finished the second volume of Mike Wallace's Greater Gotham, which covers 1898 to 1919 and sheds incredible light on the changes that took place in this city in less than a generation (and at more than 1,000 pages, the book changed my triceps too). It points to the fact that we must always reinvent ourselves. If not, we become an artifact, like Venice. Once a world-class city, it's now primarily known for overpriced cappuccinos and sinking into the sea. We don't want to go that route.

Let's take a trip down memory lane. In 1979, when I started my career, my first task was to attract a quality drugstore to southern Queens. There were none, as most neighborhoods were redlined. Queensboro Plaza was notable for greasy doughnut shops and illicit sex. Commuting outbound on the E or F line to Kew Gardens in the morning, I was often the only one in the subway car—though a drunk once tried to knife me but succeeded only in slitting my New York Times down the middle. (I was ticked, as I was just about to complete the Friday crossword.) And of course, it's easy to forget when the streets were a mélange of car-window shards and crack vials. Nostalgia just isn't what it used to be.
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People and businesses did not want to be here. Efforts were made to retain the borough's great companies; Eagle Electric and Swingline come to mind. (Oh, how I miss that gigantic neon stapler bearing down over Sunnyside Yard!) This city once had hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs; now it has just 75,000. Incentives were offered to stanch the loss of jobs, but it was like shoveling sand against the tide. Manufacturing found greener pastures, and the great smokestacks that defined our borough disappeared. (To remember what some of them left behind, catch a whiff of Flushing River or Newtown Creek at low tide.) We were triumphant when Citi opened its tower in Long Island City nearly three decades ago; we thought it was a harbinger of financial institutions that would jump across the East River. But the economic downturns in 1987 and 2008 put a big damper on the financial sector as our savior.
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The world's most diverse county needs a diverse economy. Queens still has manufacturing, albeit on a smaller scale and hopefully more environmentally friendly. Citi did beget other financial organizations, such as the U.N. Credit Union. Tourism, which employs more than 50,000 people in the borough, has played a key role as people flock for an authentic New York City experience. (Try to beat our variety of dumplings: momos, gnocchi, kreplach, empanadas and other carb-encased treats.) Movie studios also have made our economic base fatter, bringing with them a touch of glamour. (Was that Bill Murray dribbling souvlaki sauce down his chin on Ditmars Boulevard?)
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Throughout our history, the city adapts. We always have. From an oyster-trading post to the country's biggest port to a manufacturing center of everything including buggy whips and pianos (which we still do—thank you, Steinway!) to the financiers who traded under a buttonwood tree and went on to open offices in counting houses to cultural arts and mass media, we need to be cutting-edge. Technology has become that edge, and it cuts across every sector (though possibly not buggy whips).
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Why did Amazon choose Queens? For a company in any sector that wants to be at the intersection of technology, diversity and a well-skilled labor pool, the choice is apparent. My loved ones ask, "Do they really need billions of dollars that could go to rebuilding our infrastructure, schools and hospitals? A helipad, for God's sake? I need a helipad on 46th Street because the 7 train stinks." My response is that most of the economic- development incentives are as-of-right and/or in the form of tax offsets, not cold cash. They're tax credits on new jobs, not retained jobs. It can be considered seed money—yes, on a colossal scale. (Maybe this is a good time to think about how we hand out incentives, as we are in a different environment now.) But look at it this way: If 25,000 new jobs pay an average of $150,000 each per year, that's an annual payroll of nearly $3.8 billion. The incentives are "paid back" by spreading a lot of money through the city and putting a lot of bread on a lot of tables. And these are new jobs that will add to our tax base.




https://thebridgebk.com/backers-bqx-...ps-prove-case/

Backers of the BQX Say Amazon Helps Prove Their Case
Streetcar supporters say office growth along the route will grow 50% within a decade, spurring need for more transit








A rendering of proposed BQX lines crossing between the boroughs on the Pulaski Bridge over Newtown Creek




A mockup of the proposed streetcar on display a year ago in the Brooklyn Navy Yard


By STEPHEN KOEPP
December 21, 2018


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The proposed Brooklyn Queens Connector (BQX) streetcar system has been moving forward at a crawl for nearly three years, sometimes even appearing to be permanently stalled. Along the way, ambitions have been tempered. In August, Mayor de Blasio announced a new plan in which the rail system would be shorter (11 miles, down from 16), pricier ($2.73 billion, up from $2.5 billion), and later (running by 2029, instead of 2024).

The progress so far, along with debate about the plan’s worthiness, hasn’t left Brooklyn and Queens residents holding their breath for that low-cost, scenic ride from Gowanus to Astoria.

But then along came Amazon and its plans to spend $2.5 billion to create an office complex for 25,000 workers in Long Island City, right along the BQX’s proposed route. Amazon’s plan has delivered a see-what-we-mean moment for BQX supporters, who contend that commercial and residential development along the Brooklyn-Queens waterfront will make the rail system an essential transit link.
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The BQX already has the substantial support of the business community, including the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership and the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. “I’m sure many Brooklynites will be commuting to Long Island City to work at Amazon,” chamber CEO Hector Batista told The Bridge for a story on the company’s arrival. “So this is actually a great time to get to work on projects like the BQX light rail in order to help us continue to grow our local talent and economy.” The BQX group is chaired by Jed Walentas, CEO of Two Trees Management, developer of the multibillion-dollar Domino Sugar factory redevelopment site in Williamsburg.
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Yet the project still faces major obstacles in terms of logistics and cost, including the argument that the money would be better spent on other kinds of transportation projects, like bus lines. The proposed streetcar would be built by a public-private partnership and paid for partly through the increased tax revenue collected from rising property values along the route. But it would still need about $1 billion from the federal government, the mayor’s office acknowledged this year.

Some elected officials and other opponents, however, think the BQX would be a costly distraction from focusing on improving existing transit. Earlier this month, City Council Member Carol Menchaca, who represents Red Hook and Sunset Park, ripped the plan as a “terrible” idea in a hearing at City Hall. Speaking to transit chief Andy Byford, the council member declared: “Your visionary plan is in conflict, I think, with this idea that no one likes except for developers and can have an impact … on your plan if so much energy is going from the [government ] agencies into this plan.”

In another twist, Queens Borough President Melinda Katz, who supports the BQX plan, said earlier this month that Amazon should help pay for it. “A substantial and meaningful investment by Amazon that helps ensure the feasibility of [the BQX],” she said, “would be a fair investment into its new home and a welcome opportunity for a good corporate neighbor to directly benefit the existing, impacted communities of Western Queens.”
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The street level and smaller buildings look great but the tower is a bit bland.
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That salary is woefully low for that position. Even with benefits, its a crap salary. Empire State Development pay is sub par.
     
     
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Much Ado About Amazon
The company’s new headquarters could become a new Rockefeller Center.


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New Yorkers who care about a quality urban environment should cheer Amazon’s decision—perhaps excepting the Jeff Bezos helipad. The waterfront site today is virtually fallow, and something big surely would have been built there, eventually, as of right and with little public input. The site is well served by mass transit, which means that most of the new workers will not arrive by car. New York City—with 4 million jobs now—will absorb an extra 25,000 workers easily.

Before the announcement, virtually every elected official in New York signed a letter encouraging Amazon to choose the city. Now, several are objecting to the presumed overdevelopment and gentrification. But anyone who has noticed the proliferation of towers on the eastern shore of the East River might ask: Where have these critics been for the last decade?
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Fearing for the vitality of Lower Manhattan after 9/11, the city created mixed-use districts in Long Island City and downtown Brooklyn to encourage commercial development. What arose was not the mini-downtowns that planners had expected, but block after block of luxury towers. The city anticipated perhaps 300 new residential units in LIC, amounting to 300,000 square feet; but by 2018, the district had 10,000 new units, totaling 8.74 million square feet.
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Apartment towers rise one after the other in Long Island City, without any relation to each other, beyond proximity. The city has provided neither parkland nor schools nor any other amenities. Planners expected 99 more pupils in the local schools; today, there are more than 3,200. In the years since the up-zonings, no one has asked what kind of city we’re building, let alone what kind of city we want. Certainly no elected official has looked critically at what has been built and asked whether this is the best that we can do. The last 15 years of development in Long Island City have stressed building for its own sake, representing the triumph of zoning over planning.
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The situation differs profoundly from the building boom of the early twentieth century. In the 1920s, the Queens population grew by 750,000. Critics like Lewis Mumford shaped a lively public discourse about how best to improve urban living and what housing arrangements would yield the greatest benefits in terms of health and happiness. In Queens, what resulted were such innovative places as Jackson Heights, Forest Hills Gardens, and Sunnyside Gardens, and model tenements like the Celtic Park Apartments, designed by Ernest Flagg. City leaders enabled the development of livable places, rather than simply facilitating the construction of as much as possible.
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Amazon will be building most of its new headquarters from scratch, and that’s fine with the city, which essentially offered the company a blank slate. Based on what Amazon has done in Seattle, the company could have a salutary, transformative impact on the Queens waterfront.

...Part of the deal that New York struck with Amazon included an exemption from the city council’s land-use process, which is where local constituencies typically demand amenities from developers in exchange for project approval. But in the interest of goodwill, it appears likely that Amazon will make concessions to neighborhood demands for open space, waterfront access, and other urban-friendly features. Amazon, after all, has an interest in making its New York City headquarters appealing to its employees. Its model should be more Rockefeller Center than East Midtown, which was recently rezoned to allow bigger and bulkier towers, with few discernable benefits to the public. The opportunity exists for the company to make a bold, transformative statement along the East River, to the benefit of all New Yorkers.
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Our pledge to New York City
Going into 2019, we want to express how excited we are about becoming your neighbors in Long Island City, Queens.








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Happy New Year from your future neighbors at Amazon. The announcement of our new headquarters in Long Island City was the beginning of what we hope will be a long and mutually beneficial partnership between New Yorkers and Amazon.

We wanted to make sure you knew some of the details of the investment we are planning in Long Island City and for its residents:

25,000 new jobs over 10 years. We’ll hire people with all different levels of education, including New Yorkers from across the five boroughs, for jobs in software engineering, product management, program management, operations, sales, and marketing.

Career training for local residents. We’ll create programs focused on technology and relevant training that will help New Yorkers be better equipped for Amazon and other potential employment opportunities — with a focus on underrepresented residents (including internships and work-based learning opportunities).

Tens of thousands of indirect jobs in construction, building services, and hospitality. We’re committed to hiring people who live here for jobs that range from construction to food service to human resources to retail.

Over $27 billion in state and local tax revenue. These new tax revenues can be used to help the neighborhood, improve subways and buses, and build more affordable housing. The way our agreement with New York works, Amazon is eligible for financial incentives only after we make these significant investments and create the jobs mentioned above.

Supporting education. Amazon always wants to partner with communities to improve people’s lives and futures. In Long Island City, we will donate real estate for a brand-new public school for 600 students. We will extend Amazon Future Engineer, a comprehensive childhood-to-career program, to NYC to inspire, educate, and empower underrepresented minority youth to build careers in science, technology, engineering, math, and computer science.

Helping small businesses thrive. More than half of the items sold in the Amazon store are from small and medium-sized businesses, and Amazon Web Services is helping hundreds of thousands of startups launch and scale their businesses quickly and with minimal cost. In addition, the 25,000 new Amazon employees working in Long Island City will frequent local restaurants, pharmacies, clothing stores and other small businesses, helping them grow and hire.

As we move forward, we pledge to be your partner, and to listen, learn, and work together. As Long Island City thrives, so will our employees, customers, and our partnership with New York.

Happy New Year from all of us to all of you.

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Seattle City Council Members Visit New York to Warn About Amazon HQ2


By Krista Gmelich and Spencer Soper
January 7, 2019


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Two politicians from Amazon.com Inc.’s hometown traveled across the country to New York to deliver a cautionary message about the company’s expansion in the city.

Members of the Seattle City Council, Lisa Herbold and Teresa Mosqueda, are urging elected officials in New York to pass legislation now that will address potential housing and transportation issues that will inevitably follow in the wake of Amazon’s decision to build a major new campus in Queens. Both are speaking Monday at an event hosted by the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which has been backing efforts to organize workers at an Amazon fulfillment center in Staten Island.
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While Amazon could generate more than $27.5 billion in additional tax revenue for the city over 25 years, local politicians and community activists have already come out against the deal. Opponents fear the high salaries promised by Amazon and influx of as many as 40,000 employees eventually will push out residents in one of the city’s fastest growing neighborhoods, and lead to even more congestion in the already overburdened subway system.
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To be sure, the visitors from Seattle represent a city of 725,000, a fraction of New York’s 8.6 million residents, with a much less diverse population and economy than New York, a city with the resources to deliver a budget of about $90 billion a year, dwarfing Seattle’s $6 billion.
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New York’s City Council has few, if any, tools to block Amazon’s deal in Long Island City, although its lawyers may file a lawsuit challenging the deal, which could slow the project’s progress. A $505 million state grant that’s part of the Amazon subsidy package may require unanimous approval of the state’s five-member Public Authorities Control Board, which oversees capital spending.
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Not surprisingly, the unions are at odds, depending on their interests, over the Amazon campus...



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The city’s unions are at odds over Amazon LIC headquarters
Some are on board, others not so much


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New York City’s unions are at odds over Amazon’s new headquarters in Long Island City.

Stuart Appelbaum, head of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, held a rally on Monday, criticizing not just Amazon but other unions that have cut deals with the e-commerce giant, Politico reported. Appelbaum called Amazon — which announced in November that it would be opening new locations in Long Island City and Arlington, Virginia — “one of the worst employers, not just in the United States but anywhere in the world.”

Meanwhile, the building service employees union 32BJ SEIU has already reached agreements with TF Cornerstone and Plaxall, which are developing part of the new headquarters, to ensure they won’t oppose unionization of workers. One source told Politico that Amazon — which is receiving some $3 billion in state and city subsidies to relocate — will honor those agreements.

The Building and Construction Trades Council has also thrown its support behind Amazon’s new location, though it’s unclear if the organization has reached a deal with Amazon or developers of the headquarters.

“Since they are going to be working with TF Cornerstone, they will almost surely build union as well,” Stephanie Baez, a spokesperson for the city’s Economic Development Corporation, said in a statement. “TF Cornerstone always builds union.”
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Nassau hoping for spinoff benefits from Amazon HQ2
Officials eye tax breaks for new apartments and help for local businesses to become suppliers to the online giant.






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January 11, 2019


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As Amazon plans a second headquarters in Queens, Nassau County hopes to benefit from the resulting jobs and increased economic activity, officials said.

The county's Industrial Development Agency is exploring ways to capitalize on the proposed Amazon HQ2 project in Long Island City, where $2.5 billion is to be invested and 25,000 full-time workers will eventually be hired.

IDA officials said they could provide tax breaks to proposed apartments in western parts of Nassau that would be within an easy commute of Amazon’s new office.

The officials said they intend to help local businesses to become suppliers of goods and services to the online retailer — and to entice Amazon suppliers to move to Nassau.

“We want to make Nassau County a key component of the Amazon project,” said IDA executive director Richard Kessel. “We should be prepared not only to accommodate the project but to take advantage of it to benefit the county’s economy.”
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Amazon Posts First Job Listings for Its New York Office Expansion

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January 15, 2019

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Amazon.com Inc. rolled back what initially appeared to be its first job listings for a new corporate campus in New York City, saying it planned to kick off the hiring process “later in 2019.”

The retail-and-technology giant this month published two job postings, seeking a software development manager and software engineer, which said that following Amazon’s recent announcement of its expansion in New York, the company would build out a 50-person team there in 2019 as part of Amazon’s Intelligent Cloud Control group.
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“Our expansion in HQ2 will allow ICC to meet its ever-increasing staffing needs and provide leadership necessary across all of the other Amazon teams we work with that will also establish a base in HQ2 in the future,” the company said in the job postings.

Those references to HQ2 were removed by the company after press inquiries on Monday. An Amazon spokeswoman said the two advertised roles were for jobs in existing offices in New York, where Amazon has been expanding teams focused on cloud computing, advertising and fashion.
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Amazon has said it would hire about 700 people at its new Long Island City location in 2019, and about 3,000 next year.

“We haven’t posted roles in our Long Island City headquarters yet, but we’re excited to kick off our recruiting process later in 2019,”
Amazon said in a statement, adding that the company also hadn’t yet listed jobs for the new Northern Virginia location.
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Leverage Amazon's resources to help small businesses
Tech giant can help city's entrepreneurs


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January 28, 2019


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In 1977 Liza Minnelli first sang lyrics Frank Sinatra later immortalized as synonymous with New York City: “If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere.” We all want to make it here, because this is where it really counts—and because in the process, you become better at what you do.

Amazon is coming to our city because of this entrepreneurial spirit. And that is excellent news for Long Island City, Queens, and New York. As representatives of New York’s thriving business sector, we welcome Amazon’s new headquarters.

But we also know the company cannot simply replicate what it does in other cities. New York City is unique, and for Amazon to succeed, it must support New York City’s small businesses—online and in person. It must also learn from them.
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Amazon’s new headquarters will bring thousands of employees ready to patronize Long Island City businesses. Unlike other tech companies, Amazon purposefully limits food options within its corporate campuses, encouraging workers to fan out into the community.

The previous development plan for the Anable Basin site—more residential construction—would have provided far less mid-day foot traffic for local stores, restaurants, coffee shops, breweries, salons, art studios, fitness studios and cultural venues. In fact, one of the things that attracted Amazon to Long Island City was the quality and diversity of its amenities, which the company also plans to increase through a curated street-level retail program in its own buildings.
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The second way Amazon can be a good neighbor to Long Island City is by being a good customer. Over the next decade, Amazon will become one of the city’s largest private companies. It should also become one of its largest consumers—purchasing construction services, business supplies, catering services and more locally. Our Queens businesses are among the most innovative and entrepreneurial in the world and are ready to embrace this opportunity to grow and create new jobs in the borough together with Amazon.
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Finally, Amazon can also support our small businesses by continuing to extend and improve its partnerships with companies than can increase sales by using the company's online platform. More than half of items sold on Amazon come from third-party retailers and as our new neighbor, Amazon should proactively help small businesses in Queens and across the city learn to sell products online and grow.

We aren’t naïve. Making sure these positive impacts are delivered will take hard work, strong partnerships and a long-term focus. This is true for the other aspects of incorporating Amazon into Long Island City as well, be they workforce development and local hiring, infrastructure investment, or augmenting local services such as schools and transportation. But we are excited about the opportunities created by the largest economic development opportunity in New York’s history—and one which can tap the tremendous potential of this part of Queens.

It’s no secret why Amazon is coming to New York: our diverse talent pool, entrepreneurial spirit, thriving arts scene and boundless energy. Our challenge now is to leverage Amazon's resources to ensure that our local restaurants, Hunters Point Park, retail strips and small businesses are preserved and strengthened.
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Amazon will fund computer science classes at over 130 New York City high schools
Has it selected the schools that need help the most?



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Jan 29, 2019


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Amazon has begun its slow entry into New York City, where housing costs will rise even higher, 40,000 jobs will supposedly be created, and the city’s crumbling subway system will be pushed to new limits. To soften the blow, the tech giant is now coming out with a plan to fund computer science courses for over 130 high schools in New York City, which is about a quarter of the total number of high schools in the city.

Amazon’s going to pay for intro and Advanced Placement college-level courses to schools within the five boroughs. The plan addresses a pretty big need in schools, where coding classes can sometimes be scarce, especially considering the number of jobs out there that could use coders. At the same time, it helps Amazon build more interest among students as potential employees years down the line, after the company launches its second headquarters in Queens.



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NYC Council questions tax breaks and economic impact of Amazon HQ2






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Braving 20-degree weather, protesters crowded the steps of New York City Hall this morning with signs highlighting a “crumbling MTA” and rising tuition. Several held pro-union placards, while a man in a bright yellow warehouse vest claimed, “Amazon doesn’t let me pee.”

This morning, New York’s City Council held a hearing examining Amazon’s proposed HQ2 in Long Island City. Titled “Does the Amazon Deal Deliver for New York City Residents?,” the hearing follows one held last month that focused on the closed-door proceedings that delivered Amazon’s bid to the industrial Queens neighborhood.

The second time around, the council promised to explore the tax incentives that made the deal possible, along with the potential impact such a move could have on the city, residents and infrastructure.
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An upcoming hearing will feature statements from the community. For now, however, those who made it through the chamber doors were asked to sit quietly. The crowd largely heeded the warning, save for a few outbursts and the constant presence of bright orange handbills reading, “Caution: Amazon Lies,” along with a frowning face playing off the company’s familiar “A to Z” logo.

As Huseman delivered his opening remarks, twin black banners were unfurled from the balcony, claiming that “Amazon Delivers Lies” and “Supports Deportation.” Police escorted protesters out, before a third shouted complaints about Amazon’s union policies. He, too, was escorted out, as security issued a warning that any additional outbursts would force the balconies to be cleared.
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Union policies were a recurring theme throughout. Council member Daniel Dromm declared that “New York is a Union town,” while Deputy Leader Jimmy Van Bremmer shamed the company for an anti-union stance.

Johnson pressed Huseman, asking whether the company would agree to remain neutral with regards to workers unionizing. “No sir,” the executive answered. Pushed whether Amazon’s surveillance technology has been employed by agencies like ICE to deport immigrants, Huseman answered, “We cannot disclose who our customers are without their consent.”
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Amazon won’t be taking advantage of the Opportunity Zone tax break in Long Island City.

The tech giant confirmed it won’t pursue the incentives for its planned campus in the Queens neighborhood, Bloomberg reported.

“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.

The area in LIC where Amazon is planning its offices was designated as an Opportunity Zone last year. Under the program, investors can defer federal taxes on capital gains until Dec. 31, 2026, reduce that tax payment by as much as 15 percent and pay no taxes on possible profits from an opportunity fund if they hold onto the investment for 10 years. The initiative is part of the 2017 tax overhaul.

Amazon didn’t comment on whether others attached to the project, such as outside investors or future development partners, would seek to use the tax incentive, the report said.


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Amazon has said it’s in no rush to add workers in LIC. The company expects to have 700 employees in the area next year and hit 25,000 by 2028. The firm said it will remodel its temporary offices before workers can move in, and it could take two years to break ground on the New York campus.
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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.
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.



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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.
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.
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