Update on plans for New York City headquarters
After much idea and consideration, we've chosen not to push ahead with our arrangements to fabricate a home office for Amazon in Long Island City, Queens. For Amazon, the responsibility to fabricate another central station requires positive, synergistic associations with state and neighborhood chose authorities will's identity strong over the long haul. While surveys demonstrate that 70% of New Yorkers bolster our arrangements and venture, various state and neighborhood government officials have clarified that they restrict our essence and won't work with us to manufacture the kind of connections that are required to go ahead with the task we and numerous others imagined in Long Island City.
We are disillusioned to have achieved this end—we adore New York, its exceptional dynamism, individuals, and culture—and especially the network of Long Island City, where we have been able to know such huge numbers of hopeful, forward-inclining network pioneers, entrepreneurs, and occupants. There are right now more than 5,000 Amazon workers in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Staten Island, and we intend to keep developing these groups.
We are profoundly thankful to Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio, and their staffs, who so excitedly and thoughtfully welcomed us to work in New York City and bolstered us amid the procedure. Senator Cuomo and Mayor de Blasio have worked energetically for the benefit of New Yorkers to empower neighborhood venture and employment creation, and we can't talk emphatically enough pretty much the entirety of their endeavors. The enduring responsibility and commitment that these pioneers have exhibited to the networks they speak to propelled us from the earliest starting point and is one of the main reasons our choice was so troublesome.
We don't plan to revive the HQ2 seek right now. We will continue as arranged in Northern Virginia and Nashville, and we will proceed to procure and develop over our 17 corporate workplaces and tech center points in the U.S. what's more, Canada.
Much obliged to you again to Governor Cuomo, Mayor de Blasio, and the numerous other network pioneers and occupants who respected our arrangements and upheld us en route. We plan to have future opportunities to team up as we keep on building our essence in New York after some time.