Seattle-based online retail company Amazon announced Tuesday that metro Atlanta will not be home to its second headquarters (HQ2), rejecting what was an incentives package of at least $1.73 billion.
Instead, the location of Amazon’s HQ2 will be split between two other locations: Arlington, Virginia, and Long Island City in the borough of Queens in New York City.
There were nine real estate sites in metro Atlanta proposed by the state of Georgia, including the Downtown South District also known as “The Gulch”:
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