Cuomo and New York business leaders plead with Amazon to reconsider. There’s no sign Amazon is rethinking its choice, but the effort may show other tech firms they’re welcome.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio hold a news conference in New York last year. An open letter published in the New York Times, signed by a group of business leaders, elected officials and others, urged Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to reconsider the decision to abandon building a headquarters in New York City.
The appeal aligns with efforts by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to try to talk the company into returning to negotiations, including by placing a call to Bezos, according to the Times. As of Friday, though, the company has “given no indication” it would reconsider, the governor said. “This isn’t just about Amazon,” said Kathryn Wylde, the partnership’s president and CEO. “The treatment [of Amazon] is a black spot on our record in terms of our hope to continue to be a global commercial capital, specifically for the technology industry. We’ve gotten feedback from firms that have a presence on the West Coast.
But opponents of the deal, who succeeded in turning away Amazon in the first place, remain undeterred, as 77 leaders from labor unions, advocacy groups and non-profit organizations quickly responded that they were not backing down.
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