Sentences with phrase «headquarters city after the city»

The e-commerce giant has paused construction of its newest tower in its headquarters city after the City Council proposed a tax on the largest businesses to help fund affordable housing.

Not exact matches

After Amazon announced it was planning to build a second North American headquarters, cities have taken a wide range of unique approaches to entice the online retailer.

But so are the benefits: proximity to high - level execs, who drop in for pep talks and training sessions (founder Marc Benioff did not appear the week I was there, but his aura was everywhere); free run of the City by the Bay after hours; and the glow, the buzz, the grace that imbue Salesforce's vibrant headquarters in San Francisco's SoMa district, reminding initiates at every turn that they're part of something special.

After Amazon announced in September that it would build a second headquarters in an undetermined location, more than 50 North American cities concocted bids to persuade the company to choose it.

After four decades living in and around New York City, Alexander is in the process of moving his design headquarters back to Chapel Hill.

More than 3,000 members of the public also paid their respects at an open viewing Friday after a week of mourning across Houston that included tributes at City Hall, the police headquarters, the elder Mr. Bush's office, and Barbara Bush Elementary School, the New York Times reported.

A week after Amazon sent cities across North America scrambling to compete for the e-commerce giant's second headquarters, Philadelphia government leaders are beginning to settle on three locations to pitch most forcefully as the nucleus of a vast regional presence for the Seattle company: The Schuylkill Yards and uCity Square sites in West Philadelphia and South Philadelphia's Navy Yard.

In 2014, it tried to build a $ 6.5 billion headquarters on Manhattan's Far West Side, but ditched the plans after it failed to land $ 1 billion in additional subsidies from the city.

On Thursday, Amazon (AMZN) was the day's biggest business story after the company released a list of the 20 cities still in play to house its second headquarters, dubbed «HQ2.»

The measures come after a series of bomb threats at Jewish Community Centers in New York, as well as a threat called into the headquarters of the Anti-Defamation League in New York City.

Cuomo announced the measures, which includes a text messaging feature for the Division of Human Rights to report hate crime incidents, after yet another round of bomb threats Jewish Community Centers and at the headquarters of the Anti-Defamation League in New York City.

The measures — three bills all together — come after another round of threats directed at Jewish targets in two upstate communities and at the Anti-Defamation League's New York City headquarters.

A deal to redevelop the MTA's former headquarters was put on hold after a top New York City official questioned whether a private developer should be able to avoid paying potentially hundreds of millions in city taCity official questioned whether a private developer should be able to avoid paying potentially hundreds of millions in city tacity taxes.

And not all of Mr. Ickes's New York clients have gotten what they sought, including JPMorgan Chase, which decided not to build a new headquarters at Hudson Yards on the Far West Side of Manhattan after failing to obtain city subsidies.

After moderating a forum of tenants group leaders at 1199 SEIU's credit union headquarters on 43rd Street, Ms. James urged the audience to take an aggressive posture toward the state legislators — one half of which is controlled by real estate industry - friendly Republicans — to pressure them into fortifying the city's rent regulations when they come up for renewal this year this year.

Out of 27 surveyed employees at Solar City headquarters in San Mateo, 98 % report feeling more relaxed and calm after practicing meditation at work, and report that weekly meditation positively contributes to the culture of the company.

On the night of December 13, 2011, dozens of protesters slept out in the cold and rain in front of CPS headquarters at 125 S. Clark St., and on the morning of December 14 people halted the meeting of the Chicago Board of Education and held a two - hour «Peoples» Board» meeting after the Board members and the city's top education bureaucrats fled.

After the speeches by Lewis, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and others, the group marched past City Hall and stopped in front of CPS Headquarters where the pre-planned acts of civil disobedience took place.

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Nine decades after it was originally built to service the city's needs, the historic headquarters of the former New Orleans Public Service Inc. (NOPSI) will re-open its doors on July 6 as the new, luxury NOPSI Hotel, New Orleans — a Salamander Hotel.

The loan funding can only be drawn down after we receive environmental approval for our new 89 - acre consolidated headquarters in the city of San Jose.

According to news coverage that developed after the shutdown, it was revealed that the City of Nashville, Tennessee, had granted IQT a US$ 1.6 - million incentive to build a new 60,000 - square - foot call centre and headquarters there to employ 900 locally.

After all, this past quarter is the one when Amazon announced its acquisition of Whole Foods, challenged cities to offer up tax breaks and gifts in hopes of winning a bid to the company's second headquarters, and also launched a slew of new Echo and Fire TV products.