It’s Not Just New York—Amazon Nixes a Seattle Expansion, Too
It’s Not Just New York—Amazon Nixes a Seattle Expansion, Too
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
March 1, 20193m 44s
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Show Notes
Last year, Seattle’s city council repealed a tax on big employers less than a month after approving the legislation designed to raise funds to support homeless programs. The quick reversal came after Amazon, which employs around 45,000 people in the city, halted the construction of a new building and threatened to not occupy space it had leased in the planned Rainier Square tower because of the tax. Now, Amazon says it won’t move into the Rainier Square tower after all.
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