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. ...

April 23, 2022 - Our construction partners have put in more than 2 million hours of work and recently celebrated finishing the top floor—the “topping out”—of Met Park, the first phase of HQ2.

May 25, 2023 - The first phase of Amazon’s $2.5 billion second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, has finished construction and is now open to the public, the company announced on May 22.

November 22, 2021 - According to King, the team is close to extending its construction cranes to their final heights, and expects to top out the office buildings in early 2022. Installation of the exterior facade, a series of individual glass and metal modules, ...

March 15, 2024 - Some early utility work in anticipation of the second phase of Amazon's HQ2 is scheduled to start next week. The first phase of the massive office complex in Pentagon City opened last summer.

ZGF partnered with Amazon and JBG Smith to plan, design, and deliver phase one of Amazon’s HQ2, establishing 2.1 million square feet of space, 50,000 square feet of retail space (with an emphasis on local minority and women-owned businesses), ...

As Amazon envisioned this new chapter, the company enlisted Gensler to design a total of 38 workplace floors across both towers. In collaborating on the design of Amazon’s Metropolitan Park, Gensler brought together its branding and workplace ...

June 24, 2025 - Amazon has received another three years to get started on the next phase of its Crystal City headquarters. The Arlington County Board granted a three-year extension to plans to develop the PenPlace site at a meeting earlier this month. Amazon's new deadline to act on the current site plan, which envisions a futuristic spiral structure

May 19, 2023 - “Constructing buildings that can house thousands of employees on a daily basis, while operating more efficiently—and not disrupting, but rather enhancing the natural environment—is no small feat. I’m proud of the work our teams have done with HQ2 to make that a reality,” said Kara Hurst, vice president for Worldwide Sustainability at Amazon.

May 23, 2023 - This development includes two 22-story office buildings, more than 50,000sf of retail space for local small businesses and a 2-acre public park. In total, the construction project is more than 2.1M square feet.

December 12, 2023 - Amazon HQ2 · Owner: Amazon · Location: Arlington, VA · Architect: ZGF · Timber Fabricator: StructureCraft · Structural Engineer: Thornton Tomasetti · General Contractor: Clark Construction · Type: Commercial · Timber Products: Mass Timber ...

January 22, 2025 - Clark Construction Group started work on phase one in 2020. It includes two 22-story buildings—named Jasper and Merlin—each 327 ft tall. The 200,000 cu yd of concrete for the mid-rises is enough to fill the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool ...

Just south of National Landing, Virginia Tech is constructing its Innovation Campus, which it announced in November 2018 as part of the state’s bid to attract Amazon’s HQ2.

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.

March 4, 2023 - Amazon announced it is pausing construction on the next phase of its second headquarters in Arlington, Va., which would include the spiral-shaped "Helix".

In its original presentation to the county board, Amazon said it expected to begin construction on the second part of the project in mid-2022, with the first opening expected in 2026. But in early 2023, Amazon indefinitely paused construction on the second phase of HQ2, which the county cites ...

Construction has been paused on the Amazon HQ2 campus in Arlington, Virginia the company confirmed to News4 on Friday, 3 March, 2023.

June 1, 2023 - Earlier this year, it was announced that construction on the second phase of HQ2, PenPlace, was paused for the time being (yes, that is the future home of the poop-emoji building).