via seattletimes:
Jeff Bezos is leaving Seattle.
The Amazon founder said Thursday he was moving to Miami after nearly 30 years in the Puget Sound region to be closer to his parents and the site of Blue Origin’s operations in Cape Canaveral.
“I’ve lived in Seattle longer than I’ve lived anywhere else and have so many amazing memories here,” Bezos wrote in a post on Instagram announcing the move. “As exciting as the move is, it’s an emotional decision for me.”
Bezos moved to the area in 1994 when he started Amazon out of his garage in his Bellevue home. Since then, the company has exploded to include roughly 65,000 employees between Amazon’s campuses in Seattle and Bellevue. Amazon set up shop in South Lake Union in 2010 and has since become its own economic ecosystem with 10 million square feet of space and room for more than 50 retailers.
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