After a long courtship with 238 cities that resembled Silicon Valley’s version of “The Bachelor,” Jeff Bezos threw his suitors a plot twist and kept three roses for the season finale. Rather than choosing a single city to build a second headquarters, Amazon will build two new HQ locations in New York’s Long Island City and Northern Virginia’s Crystal City, along with a smaller “operations center” in Nashville.
These headquarters will come at a tremendous cost to current residents and taxpayers. Amazon is expected to receive $2.8 billion in tax subsidies from state and local governments and may benefit from additional federal tax subsidies.
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