Amazon abandons plan to occupy huge downtown Seattle office building
Amazon confirmed Wednesday it will not occupy the 722,000 square feet it had leased in the Rainier Square tower under construction at Fifth Avenue and Union Street. The lease was one of the biggest in Seattle history — enough space to hold at least 3,500 employees and perhaps up to 5,000.
Amazon is abandoning a prominent downtown Seattle office project 10 months after it threatened to do so if the city imposed a new business tax.
While the Seattle City Council ultimately reversed itself on the so-called head tax, Amazon confirmed Wednesday it will not occupy the 722,000 square feet of space it had leased in the Rainier Square tower under construction at Fifth Avenue and Union Street. The company did resume construction on another high-rise it had paused as part of last May’s threat. . . .
Luckily this whole incident has opened the eyes of the natives, and they now understand that trying to stuff Amazon's profits into the pockets of liberal politicians in the name of homelessness is a stupid move.
Just kidding - they're actually saying "See, we should've taxed them hard because they left anyway! WE WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS CORPORATE BULLYING!!!"
Phoenx Jones, our resident Seattle superhero, is retiring on account of:
" ... a lot of my friends and a lot of personal things in my life have let me down in a way that has broken my spirit. I don’t think people are the way I thought they were originally. It kind of broke how I feel about the whole world in general.”
“I honestly hope I haven’t retired,” he said. “But the great thing about being Phoenix Jones, versus being a cop, is that when I wake up and I don’t feel the urge to fight crime, my life doesn’t depend on it, my family doesn’t depend on it. If I don’t want to fight crime, I don’t. And I wake up and I don’t feel the urge to go get shot for these people right now. I really don’t feel it.”
Amazon abandons plan to occupy huge downtown Seattle office building
Amazon confirmed Wednesday it will not occupy the 722,000 square feet it had leased in the Rainier Square tower under construction at Fifth Avenue and Union Street. The lease was one of the biggest in Seattle history — enough space to hold at least 3,500 employees and perhaps up to 5,000.
Amazon is abandoning a prominent downtown Seattle office project 10 months after it threatened to do so if the city imposed a new business tax.
While the Seattle City Council ultimately reversed itself on the so-called head tax, Amazon confirmed Wednesday it will not occupy the 722,000 square feet of space it had leased in the Rainier Square tower under construction at Fifth Avenue and Union Street. The company did resume construction on another high-rise it had paused as part of last May’s threat. . . .
Luckily this whole incident has opened the eyes of the natives, and they now understand that trying to stuff Amazon's profits into the pockets of liberal politicians in the name of homelessness is a stupid move.
Just kidding - they're actually saying "See, we should've taxed them hard because they left anyway! WE WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS CORPORATE BULLYING!!!"
lulz
Companies like Amazon are modern pirate ships. They can pick and choose the safest ports for their digital strongarm raiding, then just move on when things get rough there.
C-Mag wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2019 9:11 am
Companies like Amazon are modern pirate ships. They can pick and choose the safest ports for their digital strongarm raiding, then just move on when things get rough there.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Amazon, which delivers goods to your door at Walmart prices, which brought thousands of six-figure jobs to the area along with thousands of five-figure jobs . . . are the pirates.
And your lazy ass that places order after order with them, and Seattle's lazy ass that thinks of fifteen new taxes to levy against them every year ... are the victims.
Yes, yes, indeed. Horrible, horrible Amazon and dastardly Jeff Bezos. If only we could replace Jeff with one more C-Mag or StA - then we'd all be better off, right?
DBTrek wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2019 9:22 am
Yes, yes, indeed. Horrible, horrible Amazon and dastardly Jeff Bezos. If only we could replace Jeff with one more C-Mag or StA - then we'd all be better off, right?
Right.
Bezos deserves his money - he had the vision an the skill set to make it happen....but, nonetheless...what happens when he runs out of customers?
DBTrek wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2019 9:22 am
Yes, yes, indeed. Horrible, horrible Amazon and dastardly Jeff Bezos. If only we could replace Jeff with one more C-Mag or StA - then we'd all be better off, right?
Right.
If Jeff Bezos wants to conduct his business without depending upon tax breaks, subsidized labor, and subsidized shipping, then more power to him. If he wants to move into New York using New York tax subsidies, a good decade of tax exemptions, and then subsidized labor through welfare paid to the working poor, then I think the citizens of New York rightly tell him to shove his dick pics up his ass.
DBTrek wrote: Tue Mar 12, 2019 9:22 am
Yes, yes, indeed. Horrible, horrible Amazon and dastardly Jeff Bezos. If only we could replace Jeff with one more C-Mag or StA - then we'd all be better off, right?
Right.
...or with thousands of small local businesses, but ok.
I have no issue with Amazon. I have a serious issue with subsidization.
