BOSTON—While the winner of Amazon's HQ2 sweepstakes is still to be decided, the City of Boston landed a major lease deal with Amazon that will create 2,000 tech jobs here in the next three years.
Amazon announced on Tuesday that it will be expanding its Boston Tech Hub and adding 2,000 positions here in the machine learning, speech science, cloud computing and robotics engineering fields among others. Amazon expects to open the doors to its new facility at the Boston Seaport development in 2021.
The Seattle-based mega online retailer has signed a lease for 430,000 square feet of office space at WS Development's and PSP Investments' 23-acre Boston Seaport development. Amazon will occupy all of the office space in a 525,000-square-foot building to be constructed on Block L4 of the Boston Seaport development. The new 17-story mixed-use building is being designed by a collaboration of Gensler's San Francisco and Boston offices. The building will also contain two levels of retail and will front on Harbor Square Park.
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John Jordan
John Jordan is a veteran journalist with 36 years of print and digital media experience.
