Amazon Halts Construction on Second Headquarters in Virginia As Part Of Restructuring Amid Macro Uncertainties


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  • Amazon.Com, Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) is halting construction on its second headquarters near Washington.
  • John Schoettler, Amazon’s real estate chief, confirmed the pause in a statement to Bloomberg News. 
  • Schoettler said the company remains committed to Arlington, Virginia, where Amazon has committed to spend $2.5 billion and hire 25,000 workers by 2030. 
  • Also Read: Amazon Initiates Layoff Affecting 18K Employees: Report
  • But the construction moratorium will delay the online retailer’s arrival at its most significant real estate project.
  • The move coincides with the company’s deepest-ever job cuts and a reassessment of office needs to account for remote work.
  • The first phase of the campus, which the company calls HQ2, is nearing completion. 
  • Amazon, which has more than 8,000 workers in the area, expects to start moving those employees to two newly completed office towers in a 2.1-million-square-foot development called Metropolitan Park, near the Pentagon and Washington National Airport, in June.
  • The delay affects a more significant phase across the street. It calls for three 22-story office towers and the 350-foot-tall (107-meter) Helix, a corporate conference center and indoor garden designed to echo the Spheres, plant-filled orbs at the heart of the company’s Seattle headquarters. Arlington officials granted the 2.8-million-square-foot project, PenPlace, its most crucial approval in April.
  • Amazon proliferated during the pandemic but has reassessed real estate projects to reflect remote work.
  • Meanwhile, construction projects in Bellevue, Washington, near Seattle, and Nashville, Tennessee, were paused while Amazon teams redesigned buildings.
  • Price Action: AMZN shares traded higher by 2.07% at $94.04 on the last check Friday.

20-Year Pro Trader Reveals His "MoneyLine"

Ditch your indicators and use the "MoneyLine". A simple line tells you when to buy and sell without the guesswork. It’s a line on a chart that’s helped Nic Chahine win 83% of his options buys. Here's how he does it.


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