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Google is planning a major expansion in New York that would more than double its staff numbers there in the latest vote of confidence from a big tech company in the city, alongside an expected big investment by Amazon.
The search company is in negotiations to take a lease on a new development in the city’s West Village neighbourhood. Earlier this year, Google greatly added to its real estate holdings in New York after paying $2.4bn for nearby Chelsea Market, a former biscuit factory-turned-shopping mall and office complex.
Together, the new buildings could add close to 12,000 people to Google’s headcount in the city and take the total number of its workers there close to 20,000. News of the expansion was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
If completed, the company’s expansion in New York would leave it not far short of the 25,000 jobs that Amazon is looking to bring to a different part of the city, though the stealth way in which Google has handled its expansion stands in stark contrast to Amazon’s heavily publicised move.
The ecommerce company began a high-profile search a year ago for a location for what it said would be a second headquarters that would eventually hold 50,000 workers and have equal status to its existing base in Seattle. In contrast to that, it is now closing in on making investments in two cities that would divide the staff, turning the new locations instead into large satellites of its head office.
Like Amazon, Google’s headlong growth has brought the need for giant new facilities that extend its domestic reach well beyond its current headquarters. That has led to the search for locations with enough space to house large numbers of staff in proximity, along with the chance to tap into new labour markets. Last year, Google revealed plans for a campus for 20,000 workers in San Jose, not far from its headquarters in Silicon Valley.
Amazon’s “beauty contest” was widely seen as a way for the company to play cities off against each other and maximise the financial incentives to the company. By contrast, the mayor of San Jose, Sam Liccardo, bragged on Twitter this week that Google was “paying full freight on land, fees and taxes” for its development in his city.
However, the search company will benefit from billions of dollars in new transport infrastructure that will help the Diridon Station area of San Jose, where it is planning to locate. The investments, which were planned before Google’s announcement and will also benefit other cities in region, will include a new commuter train link from the East Bay area of San Francisco and a high-speed rail link reaching down into California’s Central Valley, part of a plan to relieve overcrowding in the region.
请根据你所读到的文章内容，完成以下自测题目：
A. Google will move its headquarters to New York.
B. Google is setting a second headquarters to New York.
C. Google will double its employee number in New York.
D. Google will not invest in New York after all.
答案 (1)
A. Google expands into New York while Amazon retreats.
B. Google invests in land while Amazon invests in transport.
C. Amazon publicized its expansion while Google is more low-profile.
D. Amazon is low-profile while Google makes a lot of noise.
答案 (2)
A. A business strategy
B. A sports game
C. A health campaign
D. An environmental initiative
答案 (3)
(1) 答案：C解释：Google is planning a major expansion in New York that would more than double its staff numbers there in the latest vote of confidence from a big tech company in the city, alongside an expected big investment by Amazon.
(2) 答案：C解释：If completed, the company’s expansion in New York would leave it not far short of the 25,000 jobs that Amazon is looking to bring to a different part of the city, though the stealth way in which Google has handled its expansion stands in stark contrast to Amazon’s heavily publicised move.
(3) 答案：A解释：Amazon’s “beauty contest” was widely seen as a way for the company to play cities off against each other and maximise the financial incentives to the company.