And most of it has full utilities already in place. Most likely woukd require transportation and roadway upgrades but that shouldn’t be an obstacle.
A lot of the foreign-looking and/or foreign-sounding people protesting against this probably understood that they had no place in Amazon’s vision for the area. What was portrayed state- and city-wide as a plus (tens of thousands of jobs paying six figures) meant nothing to people at “ground zero” who would’ve simply been pushed out of the area altogether. The projected increase in values in the area was a negative to tenants; even business owners who welcomed the new customers it would bring were probably only safe if they owned their properties - and even then they could be “eminent-domained” out of them.
There really are two sides to this, and I can see both; ignore the political battles and imagine if your home was where this was to occur. Some would love it, some would oppose it, and each would have valid reasons to do so.