With the target date set fourth being the 1st of February of
2012, Amazon will be striving to open its first outpost in the
Greater Boston area. As we’ve discussed in
previous blog posts, there has been a massive boom for
tech-savvy firms to establish themselves in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. These high tech firms are mainly settling their new
Boston area offices on
and around Kendall Square in Cambridge. Here, the plethora of
talent spilling out of universities and the already growing
technology-based corporations have attracted many to stay in the
northeast.
Amazon is searching for approximately 40,000 square feet of
space in Kendall Square where its future research team of
potentially 100-150 individuals can call home. Not wishing to be
too public on the matter, Amazon has taken the position of being a
confidential company when dealing with potential landlords as
opposed to using their name. This, supposedly, is because nothing
at the moment has been set in stone for their move to Massachusetts
yet.
There are many working opportunities that will be upcoming for
Amazon. The 23rd of January will spark a weeks initiative for
Amazons engineering team who are flying in to Boston to search out
potential employees for its future Cambridge facility.
Such positions that will soon be available are tasks concerning
software engineering, engineering managers, and finally, quality
assurance engineers, whom will focus primarily on the Kindle
e-books, Amazons Cloud Drive storage services, Amazons MP3 store,
and online delivery.
Amazon actually has already had an impact on the industry in the
Greater Boston area dating back to the late 1990s when they bought
out companies PlanetAll and Exchange.com. Despite this, Amazon
never had their name in the Boston area as a legitimate operating
business. Perhaps the reason behind their ambitions to now
establish themselves in such a thriving area like Cambridge is
because of sales tax. Currently, there is a sort of penalty for
online retailing firms such as Amazon. This has occurred when
businesses have created a branch in a location of the United States
that has a significant number of employees and business operations
in effect. This evidently has ruled out an online retail firm like
Amazon from wishing to be in Boston. Despite this, in this new
year, there is federal legislation in Washington, D.C. that is
likely to pass that would eliminate any such restriction to firms
who do their business in densely populated business centers such as
Boston and Cambridge.
Subsequently, it is clear that we will soon have an Amazon
Cambridge! The implementation of these massive corporations into
our markets is only going to show a trickle down effect, benefiting
countless people and businesses all around Massachusetts.
More Information: Boston.com