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Amazon's New Headquarter Client: Silicon TV Written May 18, 2021

  • Writer: Keerah
    Keerah
  • Oct 1, 2023
  • 3 min read

This is my first ever write-up as a freelance writer. It has been quite the journey. I am grateful for the opportunity.


Amazon,more like amazing is a force to reckon with. The company is one of the most influential economic and cultural forces in the world.Amazon was created by Jeff Bezoz who is also the CEO and founder and it now has it's new headquarters in Virginia. The building itself is a whooping sum of $2.5 billion. 

Are you hitching to know more? Not to worry I'd let you in on the full details. Just like the Amazon forest houses different species of trees and animals the Amazon company  deal in all things such as industrial and scientific supplies, sporting good,apparel, musical instruments, jewelry amongst others. Amazon is a multinational technological company based in Washington which deals in e-commerce,cloud computing,digital streaming and artificial intelligence. Amazon was founded in 1994 in Bellevue Washington and later moved to a leased space in SoDo neighbourhood in Seattle.


The Amazon HQ2 in November was announced to be split into two locations.This is because Amazon believed the could both achieve great things. Amazon would bring about development and the brilliant people in these locations can work with them. It's is a win-win situation.


But in February 2019 Amazon cancelled the New York Queens location due to opposition from some resident and local politicians. The NY politicians said that Amazon headquarters will bring gentrification and displacement.


The people of Virginia were happy with this opportunity. Here is what the Governor of Northern Virginia had to say...

"We couldn't be prouder that Northern Virginia has been selected as one of 10 candidate locations for this historical project".



The new headquarters is a futuristic campus located in Northern Virginia. It is built with impeccable spiral glass structure also known as the Helix. It would house 2.8 million square feet office spaces across three buildings and 2.5 acres of public space.


The vast space of land comprises of multiple phases leaving the Helix 320 ft tall majestically in the centre. The Helix is a glass structure with walking path spiralling up on the outside. It is a structure the Amazon describes as been closely associated with nature.


The structure would harbour the plant that grow in Virginia blue mountains. Amazon headquarters in Seattle also has a similar special structure. It is called the Spheres, made up of three spherical structure and like the Helix it is filled with plant nd green. The Helix is only a proposal as it still need to get local approval before construction of the building can kick off. The Helix if approved would serve as an alternative work place and would be open for tours on some weekends of each month. The design of the campuses;it's building and structure was designed by NBBJ. The NBBJ are the previous designers of buildings like Google and Microsoft. And the main construction company is Clark Construction.

The anterior phase for the Campus comprises of Metropolitan Park site, a mix of public green spaces, 6500 square feet of retail and two sustainable office. The next phase, known as the PenPlace will be the home to three 22 story buildings that run 100 percent on renewable energy from a solar farm in Southern Virginia.

The Met Park,phase one development is sustainable LEED platinum certified building. 2.1 million square feet of energy efficient offices with state of art work places and green outdoor terraces for the employees in two 22 towers. The building is enormous it encompasses so many unexpected things. For example,there are street level retail and restaurants. Fifty thousand square feet of new retail space for shops, restaurant and a day care for area resident and employees. It has new public open spaces designed for a variety of use including a dog park, recreation areas,farmers market, an amphitheatre and there would also be room for food truck.


The Amazon HQ2 is an innovation set to change the lives of many as the people of Virginia would benefit from more than 25000 full time high paying jobs.


The community and Amazon employees will benefit from Commonwealth investing $195 million infrastructure in the neighborhood such as improvement to crystal city and Potomac yard, building of pedestrian connecting National landing and Reagan National Airport.


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