This reminds me, people often compared the way Google was expanding in the City to the way Amazon planned its campus, implying there would have been no issues with that. But what they failed to understand is that Google came in
stealth mode. No big announcements about what we are seeing today. And the more Google began to expand, the more the grumblings started, especially when they bought the Chelsea Market. If Amazon came in and didn't have to plan for a future campus of the size it had, and just blended into Manhattan along with everyone else, it would still be in New York. But the economic growth the City has been trying to get in the outer boroughs, and the decentralization of all those jobs in Manhattan wouldn't have come either. But Manhattan is already well beyond gentrified. From time to time I hear people say "why does everything have to be in Manhattan?". It's just easier in a more established place. But switch roles of the two expansions, and the same people would have been against Google's expansion. It's been mostly positive for Google because they have been under the radar, and in Manhattan.
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The googlification of Chelsea
BY MICHAEL dEsANTIS
March 27, 2018