Amazon pauses construction of second headquarters in Virginia

Amazon is pausing operation of its 2nd headquarters, dubbed HQ2, successful Virginia, the institution confirmed to CNBC.

John Schoettler, Amazon's existent property head, told Bloomberg, which archetypal reported connected it, that the institution is pushing retired the groundbreaking of PenPlace, the 2nd signifier of the sprawling bluish Virginia campus. The archetypal signifier of the campus, known arsenic Metropolitan Park, is expected to decorativeness connected clip and volition beryllium occupied arsenic planned, according to Bloomberg.

PenPlace encompasses 3 22-story bureau buildings, much than 100,000 quadrate feet of retail abstraction and a 350-foot-tall tower, called "The Helix."

Amazon selected Arlington arsenic the tract of HQ2, successful summation to the Long Island City vicinity of Queens, New York, arsenic portion of a intimately watched, splashy hunt for a 2nd office that kicked disconnected successful 2017. The institution announced successful 2019 it would halt plans to physique its caller office successful New York aft it faced pushback from section activists and metropolis assembly leaders.

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