The debates in Oklahoma City over the wisdom of coughing over arena money while other pressing issues exist is painfully familiar to longtime Seattle residents.
NYC was about to ‘pay’ Amazon, the richest company in the world, 1.5 billion dollars to build HQ2, and when it failed, they just went and spent a billion of their own funds to hire the talent they wanted in the first place.
I remember they threatened to leave NYC and then just hired even more people since.
Huh?
They did pull the planned HQ2 from NYC. They added a fulfillment center with like 1,500 jobs instead.
That’s about 1/10th of the jobs lost from HQ2 pulling out.
The HQ2 in Virginia has about 10x as many jobs as that already, and plans to double them over the next decade.
They also bought a building from we-work for 1 billion dollars instead.
NYC was about to ‘pay’ Amazon, the richest company in the world, 1.5 billion dollars to build HQ2, and when it failed, they just went and spent a billion of their own funds to hire the talent they wanted in the first place.