junctionist
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Maybe Montreal will get it, but later they'll move it here anyway.
Maybe Montreal will get it, but later they'll move it here anyway.
This may be one of those times where it's good that our mayor was a former CEO of a large technology(ish) company. I'm sure that at the very least he knows what a large corporation would be looking for and would have a better idea how to sell it.
"I don’t think the [50,000-employee] labor pool is going to be the driving force. It's the quality of life, the transport, the infrastructure, the 'Will our people be happy here?' the 'Do we want to be in the East Coast versus the West Coast since we’re already on the West Coast?'" Colliers International President U.S. Brokerage Marty Pupil said. "We don’t know what the ultimate driver is for Amazon … it’s too early to tell." [LINK]
Tory was an old-money CEO of a communication company that maintains its position via an ogliopoly- hardly of the mindset of the new economy that Amazon seems to demand.
It's little wonder that he maintains fiscally conservative positions on nearly everything in this city.
"If I look at my experience being in Seattle now for 10-plus years, residential real estate has more than doubled in price, commercial real estate has nearly tripled in price," says Thomson.
When so many people in a city work for one particular company, especially a company that can pay as well as Amazon, it can create issues of inequality.
Having the PM flirting with the competition likely means we either never had a chance, or the government is just not that interested.
Amazon already has a close association with Boston, having purchased local robot-maker Kiva Systems Inc. for $775 million in 2012. The e-commerce giant plans to add 900 jobs to a new office along Fort Point Channel in the spring, close to new headquarters being built for General Electric Co., which is focusing on the so-called Internet of Things. MIT recently announced a major breakthrough on voice-activated technology that could be of interest to Amazon, which sells the Echo smart speaker.