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Originally Posted by New Era
Seriously? From the article:
"Though the second headquarters is ultimately projected to house 50,000 workers in a $5 billion, 8-million square foot campus by 2027, Amazon said the first phase of the project would be to open about 500,000 square feet of space in 2019 in the new city."
Opening the article:
"Amazon is in talks to lease 500,000 square feet of offices in Boston’s Fort Point Channel neighborhood, a hot destination for tech companies, with an option to double the amount of space also being discussed..."
It should be pointed out that Amazon's HQ in Seattle eats up 8.1M square feet across 40+ buildings in the downtown area. They have 40,000+ employees in those spaces, and built that up over years of expansion. Amazon is not going to open a shiny new tower in a new location and drop 50,000 people in it. They have stated they are going to start with 500,000 square feet of office space and expand from there, with expectations of growing to 50,000 and 8M+ square feet of space over the next decade.
Seems this matches up with what Amazon stated they were going to do as far as opening HQ2. And this is office space is in the heart of the tech company community in Boston, and not far from where they opened up their first major office, outside Seattle, in Cambridge. |
Did you watch the video in the link? It's titled:
Search for space not connected to Amazon bid, mayor says
Here's the link to the story again for your convenience. Watch the main video a the top of the article, where they interview the BOSTON MAYOR who directly says it's not connected:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/comp...cid=spartanntp
It's also important to note that the Boston office space was being planned before the release of the HQ2 RFP last year. That's a major sign that they aren't connected.