{"id":7894,"date":"2018-04-30T13:18:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T17:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=f1595eb83705e8bb82e75d70aec5a8ce"},"modified":"2018-04-30T13:18:56","modified_gmt":"2018-04-30T17:18:56","slug":"amazon-to-expand-vancouver-tech-hub-build-office-tower-on-old-post-office-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/30\/amazon-to-expand-vancouver-tech-hub-build-office-tower-on-old-post-office-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon to expand Vancouver tech hub, build office tower on old post office site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &#8212; Online retail giant Amazon has announced it will expand its Vancouver tech hub and create 3,000 new high-tech jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon&#8217;s general manager of web services Jesse Dougherty says the new positions will be focused on e-commerce technology, cloud computing and machine learning, and they&#8217;ll be working in new office tower the company is building on the site of the city&#8217;s old post office.<\/p>\n<p>Dougherty says the current structure&#8217;s architectural features will be preserved, and the tower is expected to open in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Justin Trudeau attended the announcement and said innovation will help drive economic growth and improve the lives of middle-class Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>Seattle-based Amazon opened its first Vancouver office in 2015 and now has more than 1,000 employees, mostly software developers.<\/p>\n<p>The company is expected to announce its second North American headquarters, dubbed HQ2, sometime this year, with Toronto as the only Canadian city among the list of 20 finalists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VANCOUVER &mdash; Online retail giant Amazon has announced it will expand its Vancouver tech hub and create 3,000 new high-tech jobs. Amazon&rsquo;s general manager of web services Jesse Dougherty says the new positions will be focused on e-commerce technology, cloud computing and machine learning, and they&rsquo;ll be working in new office tower the company is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7895,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894\/revisions\/7895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}