Posted on 10/07/2021 12:58:43 PM PDT by PROCON
To paraphrase Animal House, Andy Jassy hasn’t dropped the big one — yet — but he put it in play this week. After years of deteriorating relations with their home city of Seattle and its ultra-progressive city council, Amazon’s CEO made it known that the online giant may look for greener pastures. Citing the city’s hostility toward their presence, Jassy suggested that the suburbs are looking better and better for a new home to its 50,000-employee home base (via Instapundit):
The world’s largest online retailer is by far the biggest private employer in Seattle with more than 50,000 workers. That distinction has proved a headache in recent years, with some residents and government officials blaming the company for exacerbating homelessness and traffic.“I’d say the last five years, the city council has become less enamored with business or with Amazon,” Jassy said during an event hosted by technology news site GeekWire. “It’s just been rougher.” …
The company, which is wrapping up construction of an expanded Seattle headquarters campus, has since shifted its expansion planning toward neighboring cities like Bellevue and Redmond. Bellevue, just east of Seattle, “is where most of our growth will end up being,” Jassy said. He added that he wouldn’t be surprised if Amazon opened other offices in additional cities in the region.
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Amazon should declare itself an autonomous zone!
Then they don’t have to pay taxes to anyone.
Time for Amazon to move to a more conservative area and screw it up too!
Sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.
Wanna bet what Amazon is really doing is attempting to extort tax and/or other financial bennies from state and local pols....?
If it ain’t good enough for AOC it ain’t good enough for Seattle.
“Time for Amazon to move to a more conservative area and screw it up too!”
Half of Dell’s buildings in Dell’s Round Rock location are empty. Amazon could take a few buildings there. For that matter, so can Boeing.
To be an American company, Amazon should move out of Washington.
It’s employees are Seattleans, not real Americans
Yea, stay the hell out of Spokane. We don't need your jobs or stupid employees.
Amazon is not in Seattle, it is in the area but not in Seattle. Only the homeless, hopeless and the trapped live in Seattle.
I lived on Bainbridge Island for 15 years. Had to go to Seattle a few times a year for various things, never loved that city, didn’t hate it either. In Spokane now. Lefties from Seattle leaving in droves moving to Spokane and ID, bringing their bleeping politics with them. My daughter in North ID is not happy about it.
However, property values going up and up and up there. They have 20 acres and a beautiful home. Was valued at $400k a few months ago (they bought it for $50k years ago, improved the heck out of it.) When they were on vacay in Hawaii a few weeks ago, I sent link from NYTimes Out of State Real Estate ad advertising small house there on 5 acres for $500K. I know the location, way up on a high hill on unpaved road, snowed in during winter. And if it sells for that much, daughter’s house now worth S5,000,000.
They’d rather have a Californian/Seattlite-free house.
They’re already building a warehouse out near the airport.
I’m on South Hill. You?
“My once great birth city has been taken over by socialists/communists...”
...welcome to the party. My once great birth city is Minneapolis, MN.
Of course you are correct. Nice building.
Apropos of nothing, my dermatologist’s nephew graduated from Seattle U a couple of years ago with degree in advertising. Was hired right out of school as ad manager for AMZ at $1,000,000 annual salary. AMZ pays execs really well.
$1,000,000 annual salary? Hard to believe. Think of all the people, just as talented, who would be willing to do that job for far less.
Last one out the door turn out the lights.
What a geat building for homeless appartments/heroin dens!
It's Seattlites if you please.
The woke corporations should be forced to move there.
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