Amazon Chooses New York City, D.C. Area for Additional Headquarters

Amazon chose New York City and the Washington, D.C. area for additional headquarters, planning to open an operations center in Nashville

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Amazon Chooses New York City, D.C. Area for Additional Headquarters

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Amazon has chosen New York City and the Washington, D.C. area for its additional headquarters. The company will open one headquarters in Long Island City, New York, and the other in Crystal City, Virginia.

Amazon has decided to open up two new headquarters - one in New York City and the other in the Washington, D.C. area, according to an NPR report.

One new headquarters will be located in Long Island City, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.

The other new headquarters will be located close to Washington, D.C. in the Arlington, Virginia neighborhood of Crystal City.

"We can recruit more top talent by being in two locations,” the company said in a statement, according to NPR. “These are fantastic cities that attract a lot of great talent."

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This story was originally published in 1851 Franchise on November 13, 2018. Burnaze summarizes and links to the original reporting.

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