Forgetting for a moment that 25,000 new jobs and new HQ space is a lot different than leasing space in a different borough for about 5% of that...
A top tier tech company looking for 1,500 workers in Manhattan doesn’t bring 1,500 more jobs into Manhattan, they are going to bring a few managers in, hire some support staff, then poach 1,000 or so of the existing talent pool of network and engineering gurus already working in the financial sector and getting paid top dollar who can’t be lured away from the big city to work in California, DC, Boston, or another tech labor hub. A headquarters facility would have brought in a lot of varied skillsets up and down the labor market and changed the community, this facility will be just another address and the sneakers walking in and out of it will belong to people very heavy on already sought and fought after talent in niche skillsets.
AOC tries so desperately to turn her turd into gold. She is much more stupid than I thought. She thought she had to say something and what corporate Amazon was always going to do anyway is way over her head. The fact remains that she cost her district and that region jobs and prosperity. Doesn’t matter,Amazon does what it wants,AOC says what she wants and her fidiotic voters are so stupid that they will vote her back in.