Quote Originally Posted by gimmick View Post
NY is also much more likely to attract other business without paying tax incentives than something like 230 out of 238 cities. Basically why NY was picked with 3bill nominal fee when other sited offering 9,7bill were turned down.

I think that's roughly Bloomberg's stance. NY doesn't have to offer money anymore for it to be desirable for business. Meaning opportunity cost for resources is actually quite high.
i don't disagree. one of the reasons amazon was going with ny over other areas that bid a lot more was because it believed it could recruit better people by going to ny.