Amazon HQ2

July 30, 2025 - Amazon HQ2 is Amazon's corporate headquarters in National Landing in Pentagon City, Virginia (part of Arlington County) in the Washington, D.C. area, and an expansion of the company's headquarters in Seattle, Washington. Phase I, which has capacity for 14,000 employees, opened in June 2023.

Amazon selected Arlington, Virginia as the location for its second headquarters in 2018. Amazon HQ2 is an investment of more than $2.5 billion and will result in 25,000 new Amazon jobs.

Amazon announces candidate cities for HQ2

When Amazon committed to building its second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, the company envisioned a deeply sustainable campus that would meet the needs of its employees, while integrating into and giving back to the surrounding neighborhood.

June 19, 2023 - This week, Amazon formally opened the doors of the first part of its new East Coast headquarters, dubbed HQ2, in northern Virginia. The first phase, called Metropolitan Park, includes two 22-story office towers, which can accommodate 14,000 ...

Amazon has completed construction of the first two buildings of its second headquarters, located in Arlington, Va. The all-electric structures, featuring low carbon concrete and...

March 9, 2022 - Even as Amazon has committed to plopping $5 billion in one place for HQ2, it is also building logistics facilities, R&D hubs, data centers, and back offices in communities across the continent. In April alone, the company announced it would add 3,000 jobs in Vancouver and 2,000 jobs in Boston.

January 24, 2024 - Amazon has officially opened Metropolitan Park, the first phase of our second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.

In 2018, after considering 238 proposals from communities across North America, Amazon selected Arlington, Virginia as the location for its new second headquarters (HQ2). As one of the most significant economic development projects in recent ...

July 1, 2025 - The second phase of Amazon’s HQ2, sited on PenPlace, is anchored by a 22-story, 350-foot glass spiral designed by NBBJ. The structure was dubbed the Helix, for its similarities to DNA strands and seashells.

June 24, 2025 - Bike lanes on Army Navy Drive are visible in this 2021 rendering of Amazon's HQ2 Phase 2 campus (via NBBJ/Amazon) Amazon has received another three years to get started on the next phase of its Crystal City headquarters.

Amazon HQ2’s new East Coast home base is designed by Gensler to house more than 14,000 employees in Arlington, Va., just minutes from the heart of downtown D.C.

It features a pair of 22-story towers named Jasper and Merlin that collectively encompass about 2.1 million square feet of office space. There’s an additional 50,000 square feet of retail space for more than a dozen small businesses, an Amazon spokesperson said.

March 26, 2024 - March 26th, 2024 · by Louis Bedigian · Deep Dives · Amazon had ambitious plans for its second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Known as HQ2, the company wanted to build Metropolitan (Met) Park to be an incredibly sustainable campus with ...

March 3, 2023 - After a dramatic competition that pitted US cities against one another, years of contested planning, and claims of unwavering commitment despite the pandemic, Amazon now says its plan for a second headquarters, aka HQ2, is on pause.

June 25, 2025 - Arlington County’s Board met earlier this month to discuss Amazon’s plans for its HQ2 building. The plan for the second phase of Amazon’s headquarters, called PenPlace, has been on hold indefinitely since 2023.

Amid job cuts and a pending return-to-office mandate, Amazon has paused construction on its second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Business · February 2, 2021 at 7:02 am · Amazon's planned 350-foot-tall building in Virginia, designed ...

March 4, 2023 - Amazon is halting construction on its second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. While the first phase of the project is set to be completed in June, the company’s pausing the second phase located across the street.

January 10, 2023 - After a dramatic competition that pitted US cities against one another, years of contested planning, and claims of unwavering commitment despite the pandemic, Amazon now says its plan for a second headquarters, aka HQ2, is on pause.