“I think for a lot of reasons, Queens and Arlington are very different. But the most important one relevant to this conversation is that all of the elements that Amazon would have to go through in terms of planning for land use, going through zoning — those sorts of issues have largely been handled by community conversations that we’ve had previously. Even though we didn’t have Amazon in mind, we planned for this growth nearly a decade ago in the area that they’re coming to. So our community very much has already had those consensus conversations about the number of employees who would come and what kind of associated investments in infrastructure in the public realm would need to take place to accommodate that level of employment activity, as well as the surrounding neighborhoods. We’ve done that hard work already. So when it comes to the kind of opposition about how Amazon will fit, we’ve already gone through it, we’ve already done it, and that wasn’t a source of public conversation.”
“I decided to just embrace it,” she says of the coincidence.
“Amazon is the most innovative company in the world and has created 40,000 high-wage jobs in Seattle. They’ve done far more good for our city than our incompetent City Council.
“I would like to see that. I like something new when it comes to the city. I want to see what it is all about. It needs something around here … it’s empty around here now.” —?Raymond Hawkins, a 61-year-old who has lived in Pittsburgh’s Hill District neighborhood for most of his life.
“By coming here, Chengdu can certainly learn some great ideas, as well as attract some attention to our city,” Zhang said.
“Fifteen years is a long time to work in that kind of industry and I just was at a place where I needed a break,” McClain said.
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“If you create an environment that businesses perceive as adverse, whether you agree with it or not, they will vote with their feet,” he said. “They shouldn’t think it, but they will. If they think it, that’s what will happen. So the vote today is not really just about new revenue. It’s about the erosion of existing revenues that the city enjoys. Homelessness is a tough problem. I think the answer is not new revenue but better strategies.”
“Dr Wilson was an international humanitarian hero, he was one of us, and that’s why we memorize him as ‘a Nanjing citizen with blue eyes’,” said Tang.
“Any failure of Amazon to keep its workers safe does not just put their employees at risk, it puts the entire country at risk,” the letter notes, citing that the novel coronavirus can live for up to 24 hours on cardboard and up to three days on plastic and stainless steel.
“Ho always talks to me in a gentle way. He has taken good care of me for 10 years,” Zhou said.