BELLEVUE, Wash. (AP) — Bellevue, Washington may soon be Amazon’s unofficial “HQ3.”
The Seattle-based tech giant announced on Friday that it was expanding its workforce in Bellevue, with new office space plans that will host a total of 25,000 employees in the next five years, 10,000 more than are there now.
That’s the same number of employees promised for Arlington, Virginia, by 2030, as part of Amazon’s closely watched “HQ2” sweepstakes in 2018.
Bellevue city officials say they have not provided any tax breaks or financial incentives to lure Amazon, something that cities nationwide did to compete.