Amazon.com Inc. announced Tuesday New York City and a Northern Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., would be homes for the company’s second and third headquarters, ending a more than yearlong public contest that began with 238 candidates and ended with a split of its so-called HQ2.
The Wall Street Journal reports Amazon will invest $5 billion across the two new offices that will each have more than 25,000 employees in New York City’s Long Island City and in Arlington, Va., at the National Landing area, which encompasses Crystal City and is located in the Washington, D.C., metro area.
The company also said it would create a new operations center in Nashville with more than 5,000 jobs.
Amazon split HQ2 in half between New York and Northern Virginia in part because it wanted to recruit enough of the best tech talent. The decision effectively gives Seattle-based Amazon a major presence in three coastal hubs that politically lean left, at a time when tech companies are under scrutiny for their perceived elitism and liberal social views.
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