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Amazon may buy 30 acres of land in Big Flats to build a 150,000 square foot warehouse and distribution center as early as this spring. The company is in what appears to be the last stages of approval with the Chemung County Industrial Development Agency.

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Broome County Executive Jason Garnar said the facility will bring a couple hundred jobs to the area.

DiNapoli is asking that Amazon to review its impacts on civil rights, equity, diversity and inclusion, and the impacts of those issues on its business.

New York Attorney General Letitia James said Amazon refused to obey coronavirus guidelines that would protect its warehouse employees from infection.

Construction has already started on a $350 million, 3.8 million square foot distribution center, where employees will work alongside robots to fulfill smaller customer orders.

Amazon may have violated federal health and safety standards as well as New York's whistleblower law, the New York attorney general's office wrote to Amazon in a letter obtained by NPR.

The worker helped organize a walkout to demand closure of the facility following several COVID-19 cases. Amazon fired him the same day, saying he violated quarantine and safety measures.

"I believe it was a form of government corruption. And I want to make sure it doesn’t happen again."

"Two thirds, 67 percent say it was bad for the state. It's across the board. 64 percent of city voters, 69 percent of downstate suburban voters."