Amazon Splits Coveted ‘HQ2' Between New York and Washington

Amazon.com Inc. will build new offices in New York City and Arlington, Virginia, ending months of jockeying between potential locations across the country vying for a $5 billion investment that promises 50,000 high-paying jobs over almost two decades.

Amazon also said it will create more than 5,000 jobs in Nashville, Tennessee, at a new operations center that’s responsible for fulfillment, transportation, supply chain and other activities.

The anti-climactic ending to a more than year’s-long search -- multiple office projects rather than a single second headquarters -- shows Amazon thinks it’s better to tap multiple labor markets for future growth rather ...