Amazon will split its HQ2 between two locations, Long Island City, Queens, and the D.C. suburb, with Nashville gaining an operations center Arlington, Virginia, and Long Island City in Queens, New York, will be the joint homes of Amazon?s second, and in this case third, headquarters.
The company plans to employ 25,000 employees at each location, according to an official post on the company?s blog, as well as open an Operations Center of Excellence in Nashville, which will bring 5,000 jobs to Music City.
?We are excited to build new headquarters in New York City and Northern Virginia,? said Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon, in a statement. ?These two locations will allow us to attract world-class talent that will help us to continue inventing for customers for years to come. The team did a great job selecting these sites, and we look forward to becoming an even bigger part of these communities.? The unexpected decision to split the company?s second home between these two locations caps more than a year of speculation over which city would become the second home of the trillion-dollar retail giant, as well as a promised 8 million-square-foot campus, 50,000 high-paying jobs, and $5 billion in investment.

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