New Yorkers are not too keen on having Amazon moving in so......
Amazon exploring potential alternatives to New York HQ: source
See:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/bus...-new-york-headquarters-over-local-opposition/
If they backtrack from New York, then the timeline for HQ2 is delayed.
But a delay there actually pushes HQ2 into the timeframe that works for East Harbour.
I think New Yorkers are hardly desperate for an Amazon HQ, with the whole raft of labour and cost-of-living implications it brings.
The recent history of that city has always been an ongoing fight between established locals and the newly-landed gentry.
I think we need to be clear on a few things here.
The first is that that while there is some objection to the scale of this and worry over gentrification implications...............
The largest political objection is the issue of large per-job subsidies.
In so far as that is or was a driving force in Amazon's decision making, we in Ontario chose not to offer that, and I was and remain pleased by that.
That would seem to make us an unlikely Plan B.
Beyond that, one surely does not make a public announcement of this type without quietly having bought land or entered leases.
It would be borderline insane not to do so, as obviously the price would spike the day after any announcement.
Given their (Amazon's) commitments, I don't think we should assume a wholesale rethink is real at this point.
Moreover, if it is real, I don't think we should presume to be next in line.
We might be, anything is possible. Though the implications of that are not inconsiderable...............
But its simply premature to draw any such conclusions.