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Delivering on the Promise: Amazon Moving Staff Out of Seattle
Seeing how Seattle values their company (or not), Amazon management announced this week that they will move their worldwide operations team from Seattle to Bellevue (across Lake Washington).
The move will take some months and will involve only a fraction of their total of 45,000 Seattle employees, but it sends a message to the socialist-progressive politicians who run the city, that they cannot count on Amazon’s taxes to fund their utopian agenda.
I cheered when I saw this story. I am hoping other big companies follow Amazon’s lead.
Published in Economics
Hey, don’t diss my topia!
What?
Amazon is picking up and moving just when the new power substation being built in the neighborhood is almost complete.
What’s a dog park? Is it like greyhound racing?
A dog park is a place local dog-owners walk their pets. The Seattle area has dozens, some “off-leash”. I noticed that, as usual, the substation cost twice its estimate. Here’s one reason why:
Bells and whistles required as public benefits — like the artificial-turf dog park and a quarter-mile elevated walkway around the complex — added tens of millions of dollars, as did environmental cleanup and changes in scope.
Cool! As for the wedding, you spent even less than my wife and I did!
Did he factor in the parking meter though?
Hey…..I’m right here ya know!