The world’s largest online retailer will not build its second headquarters in New York after all. The group had met with fierce resistance from some activists and politicians in the Big Apple. Now he is withdrawing. A look at a history that is inglorious on all sides.
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Amazon wasn’t welcome in Queens. (Image: Bebeto Matthews / AP)
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On Thursday Amazon has announcedthat it will not build its planned additional corporate headquarters in New York after all. The company justified this step with the strong opposition that had met it from activists and local politicians. They had resisted the tax deal concluded between Amazon and the city or the state of New York. This had promised Amazon tax breaks of $ 3 billion; In return, Amazon had undertaken to create up to 25,000 well-paying jobs in the new headquarters in New York over the next few years and to invest $ 2.5 billion there.
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