It looks like Amazon may not be done with New York yet. New reports suggests they are looking to lease over 100k square foot in office space in the Big Apple, and that’s just the beginning:
NY POST – Amazon may have bid farewell to Queens, but it still “hearts” the Big Apple.
After walking away from a deal to build a headquarters on the Queens waterfront in Long Island City, Amazon is back to shopping for office space on Manhattan’s West Side, sources tell The Post.
The tech giant has been in talks with owners of two shiny, new skyscrapers located just one block west of Penn Station: The newly built One Manhattan West and its soon-to-be sister project Two Manhattan West, sources tell The Post.
The online retailer is seeking “at least 100,000 square feet or much more” — just to start, one well-placed source said.
Amazon, which already has 5,000 workers in NYC, had been “seriously” looking at Two Manhattan West prior to choosing Long Island City in November, a second source said. “That interest has returned over the last few weeks,” the source added.
Now this isn’t the same thing as Amazon’s plan last year to build a new headquarters in Long Island, which would have been over 4 million square feet. And unlike that plan, which would have had a huge multiplier effect on the city in terms of jobs and commerce, the NY Post reports that experts say this will barely register.
It’s amazing that AOC and the officials in New York that opposed this deal still have any support from the citizens of the Big Apple.