Andrew Cuomo, left, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio hold a news conference in New York last year. An open letter published in the New York Times, signed by a group of business leaders, elected officials and others, urged Amazon founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos to reconsider the decision to abandon building a headquarters in New York City. (Bebeto Matthews/AP)Dozens of business and civic leaders are making a last-ditch effort to persuade Amazon and its founder and chief executive, Jeffrey P. Bezos, to reconsider its decision to back out of its plans to bring 25,000 jobs to New York City. Besides dozens of tech, banking and real estate executives in New York, elected officials including Reps. Hakeem Jeffries (D), Carolyn B. Maloney (D) and Max Rose (D) and religious, education and nonprofit leaders signed the letter asking Amazon to reconsider. A key critic of New York’s Amazon deal said he saw no weakening of opposition that might encourage the company to come back.

Source: Washington Post March 01, 2019 18:22 UTC