Downtown?
It’s a classic poisoned chalice. Many of those jobs will be filled by outsiders, from out-of-state and out-of-country. They will relocate to the new area, much like they did with Seattle itself, and will contribute to turning the area hard-blue (again, just like Seattle). 50,000 employees plus their families can have a significant electoral effect in a short amount of time.
Please pick Chicago or Baltimore - keep the progressives bottled up in a commie state.
“50,000 six-figure jobs”
49,820 Liberals.
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They have already purchased the property, in Concord Ca.
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” Many cities will very likely put together proposals with big tax breaks, too ....”
No worries — they’ll just raise the taxes on existing small businesses (many of them already struggling to compete with on-line retailers).
went by the amazon fulfillment center in Kenosha, last night around midnight.
Parking lot is huge and was full of cars.
Downtown?
It appears that St.Louis, MO, has been rioted out of the running. Can you say ‘karma’?
In the long run, and I don’t know for sure, it’s me, but I don’t like to see these octopi companies spread their tentacles everywhere even if I do buy quite a bit from them. It’s a new experience shopping like that and my buying habits have drastically changed as I don’t like shopping any more but used to get high from going to the stores when younger. I kind of miss that. And I miss the stores that have either gone out of business or moved out of the downtown area. Even my kids have nostalgia for some of it, places we shopped and ate which are no more.
It's really incredible and sad what Amazon has done to Seattle residents with their high-paying jobs.
Not many can afford a 2 bedroom apartment at $3000/month?
The rent prices have skyrocketed and that has led to an unprecedented new homeless population and opioid crisis.
Former residents, priced out of their apartments, or who can no longer afford the higher property taxes have resorted to living in their RV's and these RV's are parked all over the city, illegally dumping waste and the good liberals in Seattle are allowing it. Homeless encampments in city parks, parents having to walk across soccer fields before their kid's games to pick-up all the hypodermic needles.
My once great hometown has been turned into a liberal, socialist crime-ridden, drug-ridden, vagrant-ridden sh*thole.
The new city where Amazon erects their new campus better be aware of what else Amazon will bring with them.
Austin-
It’s already a leftist shiite-hole.
Kind of a non-fraternal twin?
No way it is 50,000 six figure jobs - just saying.