NSIAP: Amazon HQ2, more jobs and traffic jams

[Nice Guy Eddie 13512]

I didn’t fully understand what NYC was getting out of the deal except that it would most likely push more people into public housing.

 

[bolverk 29672]

Amazon is planning a new expansion in Austin, but says it isn't connected to HQ2

One month after Amazon announced it was cancelling its HQ2 plans in New York, the company says it's planning an 800-employee strong expansion in Austin, Texas, the Austin Statesman reports.

According to the Statesman, the employees will be focused on Amazon's software and hardware engineering, research science and cloud computing divisions.

Austin has a growing reputation as a tech hub, and the Statesman notes that it already employs over 6,600 people there. Apple also announced in December that it is spending $1 billion on a new campus in Austin which will house 5,000 employees.

Amazon's Austin site lead Terry Leeper said that the decision to expand its operations in Austin had been in the works for years, and was not influenced by the firm's cancellation of the planned HQ2 expansion in New York— which was originally slated to bring 25,000 jobs to the city — on February 14.

Austin was itself on the shortlist for HQ2, and was overlooked in favour of New York and Arlington, Virginia.

The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce told the Statesman that Amazon will receive no financial incentives for its expansion. Financial incentives were a point of contention from local activists and politicians in Amazon's planned New York expansion.

[Pasken 1309]

26 minutes ago, bolverk said:

Amazon is planning a new expansion in Austin, but says it isn't connected to HQ2

One month after Amazon announced it was cancelling its HQ2 plans in New York, the company says it's planning an 800-employee strong expansion in Austin, Texas, the Austin Statesman reports.

According to the Statesman, the employees will be focused on Amazon's software and hardware engineering, research science and cloud computing divisions.

Austin has a growing reputation as a tech hub, and the Statesman notes that it already employs over 6,600 people there. Apple also announced in December that it is spending $1 billion on a new campus in Austin which will house 5,000 employees.

Amazon's Austin site lead Terry Leeper said that the decision to expand its operations in Austin had been in the works for years, and was not influenced by the firm's cancellation of the planned HQ2 expansion in New York— which was originally slated to bring 25,000 jobs to the city — on February 14.

Austin was itself on the shortlist for HQ2, and was overlooked in favour of New York and Arlington, Virginia.

The Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce told the Statesman that Amazon will receive no financial incentives for its expansion. Financial incentives were a point of contention from local activists and politicians in Amazon's planned New York expansion.

 

We could see further expansion once the broadmore development gets going at the IBM campus.

[J.R. Juniors Junior Jr. 1084]

5 hours ago, bolverk said:

Amazon is planning a new expansion in Austin, but says it isn't connected to HQ2

Austin has a growing reputation as a tech hub, and the Statesman notes that it already employs over 6,600 people there. Apple also announced in December that it is spending $1 billion on a new campus in Austin which will house 5,000 employees.

 

Yeah, I think we're already there, and have been there for quite a while.

[Guest Lobo]

Growing reputation?   Wow, news to me.  Thankfully this new buzz hasn’t spilled over into our real estate prices.   Whew...

[futureman 22462]

3 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Growing reputation?   Wow, news to me.  Thankfully this new buzz hasn’t spilled over into our real estate prices.   Whew...

of course it’s a growing reputation. we’re nowhere near silicon valley.  it’ll be another decade or two before tech has priced out 90% of the texans in this city and everything we love about this place will be owned by west coast wankers paying $1,500 per square foot.  

[Grippe 310]

This makes me feel like I moved to Mineral Wells too early.

[Guest Lobo]

We’re a tech hub.   Have been for quite some time.  Now, we are not the tech hub.  But we are certainly a tech hub.  There’s no growing reputation about it, it’s a done deal.  That was my only point.  

The business and tech trades are positioning this announcement more accurately.  Shit like CNN and USAtoday, it’s listening to the news anchor in ‘Die Hard’.........”Bob, they’re calling this latest move as many influential tech companies make Austin the location of their second or third largest facility, ‘The Austin Effect’.”   

bob: “yes Tammy, named of course after the growing tech hub, Austin, Massachusetts.  Coming up after these messages...is this Austin place accessible by airplane or fanboat?”   

[Updawg 2266]

I know the perfect name - silicon hills

[Guest Lobo]

Wait, what about Silicon Basin?

[bolverk 29672]

KVUE slide show of Amazon's new digs in the Domain.

https://www.kvue.com/gallery/money/economy/boomtown/photos-a-look-at-where-amazons-offices-will-be-at-austins-domain/269-8ad301fc-43e3-46ab-a779-698758a2d425?index=0

 

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We could see further expansion once the broadmore development gets going at the IBM campus.

What’s going on with that?