Amazon said the new office will open in 2021 and will house employees from its consumer and advertisement teams. The company had chosen Long Island City for one of two new headquarters after a fierce bidding war among more than 200 metropolitan areas that Amazon itself had stoked. His office did so again Saturday, while lamenting that Long Island City had lost out on Amazon’s expansion plans. Facebook announced a deal last month to lease 1.5 million square feet of office space in Hudson Yards. Within that context, they were trying to make a more precise argument, which is that Long Island City was not reaping the benefits,“ Parilla said.

Source: thestar December 07, 2019 20:15 UTC