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GCI’s Beth Gutelius Weighs In On Amazon Expansion

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The New York Times quotes Beth Gutelius, a senior research specialist at UIC’s Great Cities Institute, in a story on Amazon’s expansion and the company’s mixed success with building community relationships. “People think that Amazon is a 100 percent sleek machine,” she said. “Even if they are trying to be strategic locally, they can’t actually do it because they are so big and sprawling.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/03/technology/amazon-new-york-politics-jobs.html?searchResultPosition=6