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CARL AZUZ: The technology company Amazon has cancelled plans to build part of a second headquarters in New York City. It's main campus is in Seattle, Washington. About a year and a half ago, Amazon announced it would build a second headquarters and more than 230 cities joined a competition to be the site of it. New York City and Crystal City, Virginia were two of them combined they offered Amazon $2.8 billion worth of incentives — benefits like tax breaks. And they became the two places Amazon chose for it's second headquarters. Amazon was expected to eventually bring 25,000 high paying jobs to each city and tens of billions of dollars in new tax revenue. But protests started in New York.

Residents didn't like their current tax dollars being spent to attract Amazon and some are concerned that home prices would rise making them too expensive for people who already live there. Amazon and several New York politicians blamed each other for the reasons why the project was cancelled. The company says it won't reopen its search for another campus right now but the governor of New Jersey says his state's open for business.