NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Amazon will create 2,000 new jobs at the Lord & Taylor building in Manhattan as part of a six-city expansion, the company said Tuesday.
The e-commerce behemoth plans to expand its tech hubs in Dallas, Detroit, Denver, Manhattan, Phoenix and San Diego, it said in a release. As part of that expansion, the company will be opening a 630,000-square-foot office inside the Lord & Taylor building on Fifth Avenue, it said Tuesday.
The Manhattan expansion will create 2,000 new jobs, Amazon said. The company bought the building for around $1.15 billion back in March.
Teams in the six cities “will support various businesses across Amazon, including AWS, Alexa, Amazon Advertising, Amazon Fashion, OpsTech, and Amazon Fresh,” the company said in its release.
“We expect to hire a variety of roles, from cloud infrastructure architects and software engineers to data scientists, product managers, and user experience designers,” the release added.