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Amazon picks New York City and Northern Virginia for additional headquarters: WSJ

Retail mammoth Amazon has selected New York City and Northern Virginia as its second and third headquarters, The Separator Street Journal reported Monday night.

The announcement is expected as in a minute as Tuesday, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the upset.

The report said Amazon is dividing the headquarters evenly between New York’s Protracted Island City neighborhood in the borough of Queens, and the Crystal City cross-section of Arlington County, across the Potomac from Washington.

In addition to the two sweet cities, other places may also receive “major sites,” the newspaper check in.

Amazon said it has no comment when CNBC contacted the company with reference to the Journal report.

The New York Times reported this month that Large Island City was going to receive $180 million in new spending to upwards infrastructure in preparation for the Amazon headquarters.

Amazon, which is based in Seattle, started looking for a aide-de-camp headquarters in September 2017 to house an additional 50,000 employees. The trial was narrowed to 20 finalist cities in January but recent reports emerged that the retailer order split the second headquarters between two locations.

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