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Take a look at the bike-friendly headquarters complete with employee showers that Amazon is planning to build in Arlington, Virginia

Take a look at the bike-friendly headquarters complete with employee showers that Amazon is planning to build in Arlington, Virginia

Amazon's three-phase plan for HQ2 in Arlington involves three neighborhoods.

Here's a look at the neighborhood Phase 2: Metropolitan Park will be fitting into.

The Metropolitan Park phase of HQ2 will have 1.1 acres of public open space.

Around an existing centrally-located park, these public and green spaces will include a dog park and farmers markets.

Here's how that open space will be allotted.

Employees will have access to the rooftop gardens on the office buildings.

There will be enough parking spots for 600 bikes.

Amazon will make space for 600 bikes to be stored, and it plans to extend an existing cycle path, with the aim of bolstering Arlington's cycling infrastructure. There will also be showers and lockers to encourage biking to work.

There will be 50,000 square feet of street-level retail space.

Besides restaurants and shops, there will also be a daycare center open to local families and Amazon employees with children.

Here's the layout for bike parking and retail space.

There will be two LEED Gold-certified sustainable office buildings.

Amazon will be transforming one block of vacant warehouses into two sustainable office buildings yielding 2.1 million square feet of energy-efficient space. Each tower will be 22 stories and designed for LEED Gold-certification.

The level of LEED certification is determined by the number of points a building scores across several sustainability categories, including: energy and atmosphere, location and transportation, and water efficiency. Gold is the second highest LEED sustainability ranking behind Platinum.

All of which will be near public transportation.

With 25,000 incoming employees, public transit has to be a major consideration for Amazon. HQ2 will have a nearby Virginia Railway Express (VRE) station, bus lines, and two metro stations.

Amazon will be investing $2.5 billion in building HQ2.

To put that into perspective, Amazon spent $4 billion on its Seattle headquarters. The company has hired around 5,000 employees in Seattle annually for the past decade, and it calculates that it has generated over 50,000 jobs.

HQ2's Metropolitan Park site will be a quick commute from Washington DC.

The morning commute from the White House to Metropolitan Park is about 30 minutes on the metro.