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Amazon has delayed the groundbreaking of the second part of its $2.5 billion headquarters undertaking in Arlington, Virginia, the corporate confirmed to Building Dive. Amazon spokesperson Rachael Lighty stated timing on Section 2’s groundbreaking remains to be to be decided, however that pre-construction work will transfer forward this yr.
The corporate confirmed that work has not been paused on the primary part of the undertaking, which is because of be full in June. Lighty stated the corporate remains to be evaluating its house wants, and no adjustments to the undertaking’s second part have been decided right now.
The transfer, introduced Friday, comes within the wake of the corporate pausing warehouse and achievement heart building at services throughout the nation.
The delay is a results of the abundance of house at Met Park, the primary part of the undertaking, stated John Schoettler, Amazon’s vp of World Huge Actual Property and Services, in an e mail.
“We’re all the time evaluating house plans to ensure they match our enterprise wants and to create a terrific expertise for workers, and since Met Park could have house to accommodate greater than 14,000 staff, we’ve determined to shift the groundbreaking of PenPlace (the second part of HQ2) out a bit,” Schoettler stated.
Section 1 is being developed by Bethesda, Maryland-based REIT JBG Smith and constructed by Bethesda-based contractor Clark Building. It will characteristic two 22-story LEED-Platinum workplace buildings, in addition to 50,000 sq. ft of retail house — leased with a concentrate on native small companies — and a 2-acre public park on the central inexperienced.
Baltimore-based Whiting-Turner is the final contractor for the second part of the undertaking. When accomplished, Section 2 is predicted to incorporate a 350-foot-tall glass construction often known as The Helix adorned with timber and native foliage because the centerpiece, together with three 22-story workplace towers surrounded by retail buildings, woodlands, an amphitheater, a canine run and huge areas for bicycle parking.
Clark Building, JBG Smith and Whiting-Turner didn’t present remark by publication time.
The undertaking in Arlington, simply outdoors Washington, D.C., is Amazon’s second U.S. headquarters. The opposite is in Seattle.
The delay just isn’t the primary for the tech large. Final month, Amazon stated it had 99 properties which were both delayed, closed or canceled, totaling practically 32.3 million sq. ft of actual property. That is on prime of the scores of layoffs the corporate has undertaken in current months, together with an 18,000 job slash in January.