Billionaire Says Amazon Exit Dampened Interest in Moving Hedge Fund to NYC

(Crain’s New York Business) Billionaire Ken Griffin said he’s less likely to move Citadel’s headquarters to New York City in the wake of Amazon’s decision to abandon plans to expand into Queens.“Amazon opting out of New York is heartbreaking,” Griffin said Thursday in an interview with David Rubenstein on Bloomberg Television. The hedge fund manager said he was contemplating shifting his main office from Chicago and making New York his primary home when he purchased a penthouse for $238 million in January.

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