Amazon will lease a massive Manhattan office space without taking any financial incentives from the city or state of New York, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
The e-commerce giant has signed a new lease for 335,000 square feet in the new Hudson Yards neighborhood. The office will employ 1,500+ workers.
The move comes less than a year after the company canceled plans to open a new headquarters in Queens, after local and state politicians, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, opposed a $3 billion package of tax and financial incentives offered by NYC mayor Bill de Blasio and Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Amazon claimed that facility would have employed 25,000+ workers.
In February when Amazon canceled its Queens project, it explained the decision in a post to the company’s official blog. The company has yet to issue a new blog about the lease, and representatives did not immediately respond to TheWrap’s request for comment.
After the announcement, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, “Won’t you look at that: Amazon is coming to NYC anyway – *without* requiring the public to finance shady deals, helipad handouts for Jeff Bezos, & corporate giveaways.”