Amazon (AMZN) has ditched plans to build a headquarters in Long Island City Queens, but residents and prospective renters should not expect the decision to alleviate soaring rental prices.

Long Island City’s housing market was already booming before Amazon revealed it was splitting its second headquarters between the Queens neighborhood and Crystal City, Virginia.

By 2020, up to more than 11,800 units are expected to be completed, according to the area’s local development group, Long Island City Partnership. RentCafe estimates are even higher, projecting 15,528 units to come online. Amazon’s promise to create 25,000 jobs over 10 years in the area meant all those apartments would be absorbed more quickly. There was also concern that the number of units would not be able to keep up with the demand spurred by Amazon, therefore, driving rents up even more. But it looks like rents will remain pretty much on track, which is still up.

‘Rents will rise with or without Amazon’

The bad news is “rents will rise with or without Amazon,” Jonathan Miller, CEO of appraisal firm Miller Samuel Inc., told Yahoo Finance. He noted that in New York City slowing sales activity is driving prices in the rental market.

"From a broader view, this decision will do nothing to resolve the challenges associated with housing affordability voiced by critics of the Amazon decision,” said Bankrate.com's senior economic analyst Mark Hamrick in a statement.

Median rent in Long Island City and its adjacent areas rose 6.4% during the fourth quarter of 2018 from a year ago, according to the latest Douglas Elliman and Miller Samuel market report. (Of course, rent everywhere in New York City is rising, but perhaps not as dramatically; a January report from Elliman found the median rental price for Manhattan apartments had gone up 4.6% year-over-year, while Brooklyn rentals increased just 3%.)

Real estate brokers said median rent for a one-bedroom in Long Island City is approximately $3,000 a month, slightly higher than the median rent of $2,948 in the borough of Queens.

Rents in Long Island City tend to skew higher because of the amount of luxury apartments that are being created in the neighborhood.

One silver lining is that renters will likely still see concessions in the form of free rent remain when they’re negotiating leases with landlords. Those concessions would have likely “evaporated” with the influx of potential renters to the area if Amazon had come to town, according to Miller. Now that units will rent at a normal pace, landlords will likely still have to offer concessions to attract renters and lease up their buildings.