NEW YORK - Amazon abruptly dropped plans Thursday to locate a campus for its new headquarters in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens.
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Amazon was expected to occupy up to 500,000 square feet at 1 Court Square in 2019 and work to construct more than 4 million square feet of commercial space on the Long Island City waterfront over the next 10 years.
But the company said in a blog post on its website that several politicians made it clear that "they oppose our presence and will not work with us to build the type of relationships that are required to go forward with the project we and many others envisioned in Long Island City."
In the blog post, the company said it will not reopen its HQ2 search at this time, and will proceed with plans in Arlington, Virginia and Nashville, Tennessee. The Arlington site is expected to be the same size as the New York one, with 25,000 employees. The Nashville office is expected to have 5,000.