Looks like Amazon (NASDAQ:$AMZN) sees a promising future down the road for New York City.
The internet behemoth disclosed on Thursday, September 21, that it plans to bring roughly 2,000 jobs to New York City over the course of the next three years. Why? In order to create more than 6,000 jobs across New York state by the year 2019.
AMZN is scheduled to open a new office in Manhattan in 2018, which will be located next to the Hudson Yards development project. The Washington-based company said this is all part of its “ongoing job creation efforts.”
Amazon is set to take 36,000 square feet of space at Brookfield’s 5 Manhattan West. Further, Whole Foods Market – which is now owned by Amazon – disclosed in March that it will anchor the ground-level retail space of 5 Manhattan West.
Once Amazon is set up in New York City, it plans to house its entire advertising team there. The team focuses on the following: product, design, marketing, and engineering. The company also said full-time positions are vacant for Amazon Web Services and Amazon Fashion.
“We’re excited to expand our presence in New York – we have always found great talent here,” said Paul Kotas, who is Amazon’s senior VP of worldwide advertising.
It is also worth mentioning that a source close to Amazon’s plans said Thursday that the 2,000 jobs coming to the city were decided upon before Amazon’s second headquarter search was announced, and this shouldn’t be seen as any kind of endorsement for New York City.
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