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We walked around National Landing, the new neighborhood in Virginia Amazon carved out for its HQ2 - here's what it looks like today

Mariah Miranda   

We walked around National Landing, the new neighborhood in Virginia Amazon carved out for its HQ2 - here's what it looks like today
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The skyline is already littered with high-rises and construction cranes.

  • Amazon has announced that its second headquarters, HQ2, will be split between Queens, New York, and Arlington, Virginia.
  • As part of Amazon's new headquarters, Virginia and Arlington will benefit from more than 25,000 full-time high-paying jobs and approximately $2.5 billion in Amazon investment.
  • National Landing is a newly defined urban neighborhood in Northern Virginia located less than 3 miles from downtown Washington, D.C. The community has a variety of hotels, restaurants, high-rise apartment buildings, retail, and commercial offices.

Amazon has announced it will bring it's second headquarters to Queens, New York and the National Landing area of Arlington, Virginia.

According to the official page for Northern Virginia's HQ2 bid, National Landing was jointly carved out by Arlington and Alexandria for Amazon's second headquarters.

The newly-defined neighborhood encompasses Crystal City, the eastern portion of Pentagon City, and the northern portion of Potomac Yard.

Let's take a look at what National Landing looks like today and envision what it could morph into in the next few decades.

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