Amazon HQ2 rendering showing the Helix, which includes work space, will also be open to the public select weekends every month.
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Amazon is pausing construction of its second headquarters, dubbed HQ2, in Virginia, the company confirmed to CNBC.
John Schoettler, Amazon’s real estate head, told Bloomberg, which first reported on it, that the company is pushing out the groundbreaking of PenPlace, the second phase of the sprawling northern Virginia campus. The first phase of the campus, known as Metropolitan Park, is expected to finish on time and will be occupied as planned, according to Bloomberg.
PenPlace encompasses three 22-story office buildings, more than 100,000 square feet of retail space and a 350-foot-tall tower, called “The Helix.”
Amazon selected Arlington as the site of HQ2, in addition to the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York, as part of a closely watched, splashy search for a second headquarters that kicked off in 2017. The company announced in 2019 it would halt plans to build its new headquarters in New York after it faced pushback from local activists and city council leaders.
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