AOC screwed the pooch with Amazon but they still may go Big Apple

Bwah ha ha ha! 

That's my evil Freudenschade laugh at Rep. Alexandria Obviously-Cortexless and her New York cohorts who screwed the pooch on the Amazon deal that was slated to come to Queens, NY--her district. The HQ move would have brought about 25,000 high-paying jobs to the company and around 5 times that many interrelated jobs as well.

In a stinging slap in the face to AOC and her cohorts who scuttled the Amazon deal, the company is reputedly going to place its headquarters in Manhattan instead--not her district.

One more for the Gipper: Bwah ha ha ha!

According to The New York Post, Amazon is communicating with Brookfield, the owners of the One Manhattan West building and its soon-to-be partner, Two Manhattan West. The plan is to secure “at least 100,000 square feet or much more.” 

While Two Manhattan West won’t be equipped for tenants until 2022, 67-story One Manhattan West will be ready by autumn 2020 and provides a whopping 250,000-square-foot space inside. The massive space is not available in perpetuity, but it can fit Amazon’s needs until Two Manhattan is ready, according to the Post’s secret sources.

The Post noted, “Brookfield, which owns the two Manhattan West towers (and another at 5 Manhattan West, where Amazon is already a tenant), denied through a spokesman that it was leasing to the Seattle company. But multiple sources pointed to the company’s strict confidentiality agreements as a potential reason.”

Those same secret sources told the Post that Amazon is also thinking of renting space in the U.S. Post Office building across from the Brookfield buildings.

Amazon had originally planned to build a four-million-square-foot campus in Long Island City. 

Queens residents were over the moon with the prospect of the rumored 25,000 jobs that were mentioned, as well as the effect on local businesses. Alfredo Ortiz, president & CEO of the Job Creators Network told the Post that for every job Amazon would have created, a multiplier effect would have affected five or more other local jobs.

The Post also noted, “The Long Island City deal would also have seen Amazon invest in a 600-seat public school; a workforce development and training space; an artists’ workspace; and 149,650 square feet of public open space, among other projects — all of which is now lost.”

In February, Amazon responded to the backoff regarding the Queens location:

"After much thought and deliberation, we've decided not to move forward with our plans to build a headquarters for Amazon in Long Island City, Queens," Jodi Seth, an Amazon spokeswoman, said in a statement. In the statement, Amazon noted that "a number of state and local politicians have made it clear that they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project we and many others envisioned in Long Island City."

Obviously-Cortexless celebrated the scuttling of Amazon’s plans, stupidly tweeting: 

"Anything is possible: today was the day a group of dedicated, everyday New Yorkers & their neighbors defeated Amazon’s corporate greed, its worker exploitation, and the power of the richest man in the world."

Are you beginning to see how socialists envy success and hate successful people?

New York Governor Andrew "I Hear An Echo In My Head" Cuomo took a shot at AOC and her posse, issuing a statement in which he said, "A small group politicians [sic] put their own narrow political interests above their community -- which poll after poll showed overwhelmingly supported bringing Amazon to Long Island City -- the state's economic future and the best interests of the people of this state."

Let's remember, New York City voted for the empty suit named Cuomo. Why wouldn't they vote for a pretty empty head named Cortexless?

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