[Alberta's Child]

If the Amazon project in Queens had been fully built out it could have ultimately ended up with 8 million square feet of new development in the area.

Only a Puerto Rican dingbat from the Bronx would consider a 335,000 square foot regional office an improvement on that.

[pepsionice]

This brings to mind the effort of Wal-Mart in arriving and setting up operations in the District of Columbia around the 2010 to 2013 era. The company laid out the plans for two Wal-Mart stores to open up within the District.

Then, all heck broke loose with community groups and the city council delaying the two projects. There were literally dozens of promises that were being demanded (only DC residents to be hired for the jobs, for example). Some of the community groups were basically against the projects until they got some donation via Wal-Mart to their charity fund.

Support....just to get jobs into the community? Zero.