Agreed. Reading this story, Snap struck me as the anti-Amazon. Whereas Snap moved into an established neighborhood and took over, Amazon focused development on a neighborhood that was derelict and turned it into a ripe area for other developers (e.g., Paul Allen's Vulcan).
> Amazon has a large but consolidated presence in places that at one point contained almost no housing.
Exactly, and SLU now has a lot of new housing, mostly filled with Amazon employees.
> Amazon has a large but consolidated presence in places that at one point contained almost no housing.
Exactly, and SLU now has a lot of new housing, mostly filled with Amazon employees.