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How Amazon HQ2 Will Affect Long Island City

By James Nelson
Principal, Head of Tri-State Investment Sales
Avison Young

This month for The Nelson Report I wanted to explore the implications of the “Amazon Effect” and what exactly attracted the massive commerce company to pick Long Island City out of 238 other places to be the home of its second headquarters.

I had the pleasure of sitting […]

If Jeff Bezos Makes Washington the Second Headquarters of Amazon

On October 21, 2016, an entity called the Cherry Revocable Trust purchased two adjacent buildings in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C., for twenty-three million dollars. The buildings, which previously had housed the Textile Museum, were to be converted into a private residence—at twenty-seven thousand square feet, the largest in the city. In January, it was […]