New York (CNN Business) After running a year-long competition that drew interest from hundreds of cities and a number of states, Amazon has chosen New York City and Northern Virginia to split duty as its second headquarters.

On Tuesday, Amazon announced it has chosen New York's Long Island City and Virginia's Arlington for HQ2. Both locations will receive a $2.5 billion investment from Amazon, and each will have more than 25,000 workers over time. Hiring begins next year.

The reason behind the surprise decision to divide the facility was due to the talent pool. Amazon realized it could recruit more skilled workers and offer employees choice if it offered two locations.

The development projects promise to bring the cities a giant infusion of high-paying jobs and tax revenue, but are almost certain to draw fire from critics concerned about their impact on infrastructure and property values.

Amazon said it in a blog post it will receive incentives of about $1.5 billion based on job creation in Long Island City, and incentives of $573 million for Arlington. Jobs in both cities will have an average annual salary of $150,000, the company said.

In Long Island City and Arlington, Amazon will have four million square feet of office space with the possibility of expanding to 8 million square feet. Amazon estimates an incremental tax revenue of over $10 billion in the next 20 years as a result of its investment and job creation in Long Island City and New York, and $3.2 billion over the same time period in Arlington and Virginia.

Jay Carney, SVP of Worldwide Corporate Affairs at Amazon, said the process of cities offering incentives to companies looking to enter new regions is standard across the US.

"If you look at some of the packages that were put forward by other cities, the incentives ... in New York and the DC area, Northern Virginia are actually lower than were offered elsewhere," he told CNN's Julia Chatterley. "The talent was really the driving factor for us."

Carney said it was important for Amazon to be in spots that would be attractive to potential new employees.

The Arlington headquarters will be located in what Amazon is calling "National Landing," which is less than 3 miles from downtown Washington DC. The newly-branded neighborhood includes parts of Pentagon City and Crystal City in Arlington and Potomac Yard in Alexandria.

Meanwhile, the New York City office will be in the fast-growing Queens neighborhood of Long Island City , just across the East River and minutes from downtown Manhattan on the subway.

The company also announced a new hub in Nashville to oversee customer fulfillment, transportation and supply chain activities. It will employ 5,000 people. Nashville was on Amazon's short list for HQ2.

The second headquarters search began in September 2017 when Seattle-based Amazon announced it would start accepting proposals for what quickly became known as HQ2.

During the process, Amazon narrowed 238 bids to 20 finalists , including Chicago, Denver, Indianapolis, and Miami. Executives traveled across the United States -- and to one Canadian city -- to tour sites to find the company's next home.

Amazon's criteria for HQ2 included proximity to a major airport, ability to attract technical talent and a suburban or urban area with over 1 million people.

In a surprise twist, Amazon ultimately decided to choose two winners instead of one. It originally said HQ2 would create 50,000 high-paying jobs and would be a full equal to its Seattle headquarters.

One of the main concerns about the process was how a city would navigate an influx of 50,000 new workers. Splitting the project in half could ease the impact, and help Amazon avoid some of the blame for higher housing prices or more traffic in those regions. The move also allows Amazon to recruit top talent from two major Metropolitan areas.

The search ignited a frenzy among cities looking to boost their economies. Some cities responded with elaborate gestures to try to woo Amazon. Tucson, Arizona, famously sent Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos a giant cactus, and Birmingham, Alabama, installed massive Amazon delivery boxes around the city. Kansas City's mayor gave five-star reviews to 1,000 random items on Amazon's website, and Stonecrest, Georgia offered to rename some of its land the city of Amazon.

Amazon has said employees who work in Seattle will have a chance to relocate. It will also hire teams and executives for the new locations.

The company estimates that its investments in Seattle from 2010 to 2016 added $38 billion to the city's economy. These investments include buildings, parks and infrastructure, such as corporate offices and Prime Now delivery sites.

But Amazon's search for HQ2 was never just about finding a new home.

Throughout the process, Amazon skillfully obtained free data from cities across North America, including proprietary information about real estate sites under development, details about their talent pool, local labor cost and what incentives cities and states were willing to pony up to bring the company to town.

"Amazon was not going through this exercise to pick a single HQ2," said Richard Florida, a leading urbanist and professor at the University of Toronto. "It was part of a broader effort -- a corporate relocation strategy -- to crowd source a wide variety of data."</s>(RNN) – Amazon has picked locations in New York City and Northern Virginia for its second and third headquarters, according to a report published late Monday in The Wall Street Journal.</s>ARLINGTON, Va. — Amazon is bringing 25,000 jobs and a new name to Northern Virginia.

The tech behemoth on Tuesday ended a 14-month search for its second headquarters. Amazon announced a split between Long Island City in New York City and Arlington County in Northern Virginia.

Residents of Crystal City, Virginia, had been anticipating Amazon’s move to the region, but in the official press release the neighborhood’s name wasn’t in the limelight. Instead, Amazon dubbed the area National Landing, “an urban community in Northern Virginia located less than 3 miles from downtown Washington, D.C.”

National Landing is several neighborhoods, which include “portions of Pentagon City and Crystal City in Arlington County, Virginia, and Potomac Yard in the City of Alexandria, Virginia,” according to a state of Virginia’s release. “Amazon’s initial growth is expected to be focused in the Crystal City and Pentagon City portions of National Landing.”

Arlington County spokesperson Cara O’Donnell told CNN Business the new name is “part of the proposal as a way to brand the entire area and showcase the unique partnership between Arlington and Alexandria.”

Crystal City wasn’t offended by the rebrand. It said in a release it’s “thrilled” with the decision.

“We’re energized by the positive impact this will have on Crystal City, where momentous change is already taking place,” it said.</s>Amazon will split second headquarters between New York City and Virginia, according to a person familiar with the plans

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Amazon will split second headquarters between New York City and Virginia, according to a person familiar with the plans.</s>ARLINGTON, Virginia — Amazon has made a more prosaic choice than the hype originally promised, naming New York City and the Washington, D.C. suburb of Arlington, Virginia as the two areas that will divvy up the 50,000 high-paying jobs the online retail giant is expected to bring.

The announcement Tuesday comes after 24 months of intense jockeying by more than 230 cities vying to take home the glittering prize of becoming the home of Amazon's second headquarters.

Instead, Amazon chose two areas that have long been considered front-runners, even among the 20 finalists announced on January 18.

While Amazon’s request for proposals listed multiple requirements, including tax incentives and a business-friendly environment, in the end the whole reason for the exercise was to aid the Seattle-based company in hiring the best and the brightest talent to keep up its ferocious pace of innovation. Even as other tech companies are pushing equally hard to hire those same workers.

New York City and the greater D.C. area both fit that bill admirably, said Jeffrey Shulman, a professor at the University of Washington’s school of business who studies Amazon’s effect on Seattle.

A view of the Crystal City area in Arlington, Va. can be seen on Nov. 7, 2018. Amazon has decided to split its new headquarters between New York City and a Washington suburb in Northern Virginia, The Wall Street Journal reported, Nov. 12, 2018.

“Both of those cities are attractive places to live where they have both a talent pool and the cultural amenities that make someone willing to uproot their lives and move there,” he said. And naming two rather than just one new headquarters gives the company an edge, he explained. “People who want to work at Amazon will now have three cities to choose from rather than one or two,” he said.

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The Washington, D.C. metro area emerged as an odds-on favorite to land Amazon’s second U.S. headquarters when it landed three spots among the 20 finalists when the company narrowed its list of candidate sites in January: Montgomery County, Maryland; Northern Virginia (Loudoun County, Virginia and Fairfax County, Virginia); and Washington, D.C. itself.

That resulted in nine proposed building sites within a 28-mile radius of the U.S. Capitol.

As the seat of the nation’s government, Washington stands out among the potential sites. The area’s public transportation system and its white-collar, well-educated workforce are strengths. And its location in the Eastern Time Zone makes it good for staying in touch with subsidiaries across the Atlantic. Founder Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post newspaper, recently purchased a $23 million mansion in the area, the largest private residence in the nation’s capital.

“Then you put Bezos having a house here and owning The Post and increasingly needing to influence federal policy, this isn’t a bad place to be,” said economist Stephen Fuller, a professor of public policy and regional development and director of the Fuller Institute at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Still, Northern Virginia stood out as the prime choice in the region for its tech-centric surroundings. A crossroads of the Internet, the region has countless data centers where tech giants such as Facebook, Google and Salesforce connect. Amazon Web Services itself has 29 individual data centers in Northern Virginia. And Loudon County, where most of the data centers are located, claims that 70 percent of all global Internet traffic flows through it.

Arlington and the City of Alexandria, after working together for the last year in a unique and unprecedented regional partnership, said Amazon would locate in National Landing, a newly branded neighborhood encompassing parts of Pentagon City and Crystal City in Arlington and Potomac Yard in Alexandria.

The case for New York

Probably highest on Amazon’s list of must-haves is access to tech and other talent. The New York Metro area has close to 1.3 million workers in the relevant fields of management, business, finance, math, public relations and sales.

New York is also a magnet for young professionals, who prize urban areas, rich culture and vibrant arts scenes. In addition, it has a massive, if somewhat beleaguered transit system.

And it's a large enough city that adding another 25,000 highly paid workers won't seriously distort the job market in the ways they might have in smaller cities like Raleigh, North Carolina, or Columbus, Ohio.

While housing in New York City overall is tight, the area Amazon is reportedly homing in on, Long Island City at the western edge of the borough of Queens, has been on an apartment building spree. A total of 41 new apartment buildings have been built in the area over the past eight years, with 12,533 apartments by 2017, according to RentCafe.

Amazon also announced it is investing $230 million in Nashville and adding 5,000 jobs at a new operations site.

The new Amazon site will be located at Nashville Yards, located downtown. The new site, dubbed the Operations Center of Excellence, will be responsible for the company's customer fulfillment, transportation, supply chain, and other similar activities.

Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce CEO Ralph Schulz emphasized the high wages as a win for Nashville and said he expects the company to hire from the Middle Tennessee region. He said 5,000 jobs is a "pretty good fit" compared to the 50,000 jobs the city was initialing pursuing as a second headquarters.

"It would have been a challenge over time," he said. "The 5000 is a good fit in lots of ways, not just in size."

The search began on Sept. 7, 2017, when Amazon announced it was looking for a second headquarters, one that would be co-equal to its Seattle home. It posted a request for proposals outlining what information and attributes it was looking for.

Such an open process for an economic development proposal is rare, as these searches are usually done in secrecy and only announced once a site has been chosen. Amazon instead posted its list of made its requirements public and let the offers roll in.

The prospect of investment and bragging rights from securing what's now the world's most valuable company pitted tiny cities against metropolises, each striving to convince the Seattle company it had the right workers, transportation, culture and tax breaks. It was an effort built for the age of social media, when everything takes place in public and there is constant jockeying for top billing.

In the end, 238 cities sent in proposals by the Oct. 19, 2017 deadline.

On Jan. 18, 2018 a shortlist of 20 finalists was announced. The cities and areas were Atlanta; Austin; Boston; Chicago; Columbus; Ohio; Dallas; Denver; Indianapolis; Los Angeles; Miami; Montgomery County, Maryland; Nashville; Newark, New Jersey; New York City; Northern Virginia (Loudoun County, Virginia and Fairfax County, Virginia); Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; Raleigh, North Carolina; Toronto and Washington, D.C.

A team from the company visited each of the finalists in the spring and summer of 2018, then spent the next months crunching numbers and doing due-diligence checks in a tightly controlled process.

While all 20 cities were eager for the jobs and investment the headquarters will bring, detractors, who dubbed the process a “race to the bottom,” argued cities offered enormous tax credits and other incentives to entice Amazon, with little proof that the city would come out ahead. Some residents worried that the influx of highly paid tech workers would worsen commutes and drive up already steep housing prices.

Almost none of the finalist cities told the public — or even their local city councils — the dollar amounts. This is legal because most of the deals were put together by local development agencies.</s>ARLINGTON, Va. – Amazon has made a more prosaic choice than the hype originally promised, naming New York City and the Washington, D.C. suburb of Arlington, Virginia, as the two areas that will divvy up the 50,000 high-paying jobs the online retail giant is expected to bring.

The announcement Tuesday comes after 14 months of intense jockeying by more than 230 cities vying to take home the glittering prize of becoming the home of Amazon's second headquarters.

Instead, Amazon chose two areas that have long been considered front-runners, even among the 20 finalists announced on Jan. 18.

While Amazon’s request for proposals listed multiple requirements, including tax incentives and a business-friendly environment, in the end the whole reason for the exercise was to aid the Seattle-based company in hiring the best and the brightest talent to keep up its ferocious pace of innovation – even as other tech companies are pushing equally hard to hire those same workers.

New York City and the greater D.C. area both fit that bill admirably, said Jeffrey Shulman, a professor at the University of Washington’s school of business who studies Amazon’s effect on Seattle.

A view of the Crystal City area in Arlington, Va. can be seen on Nov. 7, 2018. Amazon has decided to split its new headquarters between New York City and a Washington suburb in Northern Virginia, The Wall Street Journal reported, Nov. 12, 2018.

“Both of those cities are attractive places to live where they have both a talent pool and the cultural amenities that make someone willing to uproot their lives and move there,” he said. And naming two rather than just one new headquarters gives the company an edge, he explained. “People who want to work at Amazon will now have three cities to choose from rather than one or two,” he said.

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More: Amazon HQ2: Pros and cons of it coming to your city

The Washington, D.C. metro area emerged as an odds-on favorite to land Amazon’s second U.S. headquarters when it landed three spots among the 20 finalists when the company narrowed its list of candidate sites in January: Montgomery County, Maryland; Northern Virginia (Loudoun and Fairfax counties); and Washington, D.C. itself.

That resulted in nine proposed building sites within a 28-mile radius of the U.S. Capitol.

As the seat of the nation’s government, Washington stands out among the potential sites. The area’s public transportation system and its white-collar, well-educated workforce are strengths. And its location in the Eastern Time Zone makes it good for staying in touch with subsidiaries across the Atlantic. Founder Jeff Bezos, who also owns The Washington Post newspaper, recently purchased a $23 million mansion in the area, the largest private residence in the nation’s capital.

“Then you put Bezos having a house here and owning The Post and increasingly needing to influence federal policy, this isn’t a bad place to be,” said economist Stephen Fuller, a professor of public policy and regional development and director of the Fuller Institute at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

Still, Northern Virginia stood out as the prime choice in the region for its tech-centric surroundings. A crossroads of the internet, the region has countless data centers where tech giants such as Facebook, Google and Salesforce connect. Amazon Web Services itself has 29 individual data centers in Northern Virginia. And Loudoun County, where most of the data centers are located, claims that 70 percent of all global Internet traffic flows through it.

Arlington and the City of Alexandria, after working together for the last year in a unique and unprecedented regional partnership, said Amazon would locate in National Landing, a newly branded neighborhood encompassing parts of Pentagon City and Crystal City in Arlington and Potomac Yard in Alexandria.

The case for New York

Probably highest on Amazon’s list of must-haves is access to tech and other talent. The New York metro area has close to 1.3 million workers in the relevant fields of management, business, finance, math, public relations and sales.

New York is also a magnet for young professionals, who prize urban areas, rich culture and vibrant arts scenes. In addition, it has a massive, if somewhat beleaguered, transit system.

And it's a large enough city that adding another 25,000 highly paid workers won't seriously distort the job market in the ways they might have in smaller cities such as Raleigh, North Carolina, or Columbus, Ohio.

While housing in New York City overall is tight, the area Amazon is reportedly homing in on Long Island City at the western edge of the borough of Queens, which has been on an apartment-building spree. A total of 41 new apartment buildings have been built in the area over the past eight years, with 12,533 apartments by 2017, according to RentCafe.

Not everyone was thrilled at the announcement. Multiple New York politicians questioned whether Amazon should even be allowed in the city, given the package of incentives it took to get the company there.

“Offering massive corporate welfare from scare public resources to one of the wealthiest corporations in the world at a time of great need in our state is just wrong. The burden should not be on the 99 percent to prove we are worthy of the 1 percent’s presence in our communities, but rather on Amazon to prove it would be a responsible corporate neighbor,” wrote New York state Sen. Michael Gianaris and New York City Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer in a statement.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a New York activist and Democrat who was recently elected to represent the 14th Congressional district covering the Bronx and Queens, tweeted that residents in Queens were “outraged” at the announcement that Amazon was coming to their neighborhood.

On Twitter, she said the questions that needed to be asked included, “Has the company promised to hire in the existing community? - What’s the quality of jobs + how many are promised? Are these jobs low-wage or high wage? Are there benefits? Can people collectively bargain?”

Queens resident Joe Conde, 40, said while welcoming Amazon was a good idea, he didn’t know where they’re going to put it.

“Long Island City is congested as it is already. I don’t know how on earth more people can fit. I guess it could be good to bring more jobs, but the traffic is already bad enough around here with all the construction and new residents," he said.

Amazon also announced it is investing $230 million in Nashville, Tennessee, and adding 5,000 jobs at a new operations site.

The new Amazon site will be located at Nashville Yards, located downtown. The new site, dubbed the Operations Center of Excellence, will be responsible for the company's customer fulfillment, transportation, supply chain and other similar activities.

Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce CEO Ralph Schulz emphasized the high wages as a win for Nashville and said he expects the company to hire from the middle Tennessee region. He said 5,000 jobs is a "pretty good fit" compared to the 50,000 jobs the city was initialing pursuing as a second headquarters.

"It would have been a challenge over time," he said. "The 5,000 is a good fit in lots of ways, not just in size."

The search began on Sept. 7, 2017, when Amazon announced it was looking for a second headquarters, one that would be co-equal to its Seattle home. It posted a request for proposals outlining what information and attributes it was looking for.

Such an open process for an economic development proposal is rare, as these searches are usually done in secrecy and only announced once a site has been chosen. Amazon instead made its requirements public and let the offers roll in.

The prospect of investment and bragging rights from securing what's now the world's most valuable company pitted tiny cities against metropolises, each striving to convince the Seattle company it had the right workers, transportation, culture and tax breaks. It was an effort built for the age of social media, when everything takes place in public and there is constant jockeying for top billing.

In the end, 238 cities sent in proposals by the Oct. 19, 2017, deadline.

On Jan. 18, 2018, a shortlist of 20 finalists was announced. The cities and areas were Atlanta; Austin, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Columbus, Ohio; Dallas; Denver; Indianapolis; Los Angeles; Miami; Montgomery County, Maryland; Nashville; Newark, New Jersey; New York City; Northern Virginia (Loudoun and Fairfax counties); Philadelphia; Pittsburgh; Raleigh, North Carolina; Toronto; and Washington, D.C.

A team from the company visited each of the finalists in the spring and summer of 2018, then spent the next months crunching numbers and doing due-diligence checks in a tightly controlled process.

While all 20 cities were eager for the jobs and investment the headquarters will bring, detractors, who dubbed the process a “race to the bottom,” argued cities offered enormous tax credits and other incentives to entice Amazon, with little proof that the city would come out ahead. Some residents worried that the influx of highly paid tech workers would worsen commutes and drive up already steep housing prices.

Almost none of the finalist cities told the public – or even their local city councils – the dollar amounts. This is legal because most of the deals were put together by local development agencies.

Contributing: Dalvin Brown in New York City for USA TODAY, Jamie McGee at the Nashville Tennessean.</s>Amazon.com Inc. made it official Tuesday, announcing plans to split its highly coveted second headquarters known as HQ2 between the Washington, D.C., and New York City areas. Crystal City and its surrounding areas (rebranded in…

Amazon.com Inc. made it official Tuesday, announcing plans to split its highly coveted second headquarters known as HQ2 between the Washington, D.C., and New York City areas.

Crystal City and its surrounding areas (rebranded in Amazon’s press release as part of “National Landing”) and Long Island City in Queens will each ultimately get more than 25,000 Amazon employees as part of the deal.

In addition, Amazon announced it selected Nashville for a new Center of Excellence for its Operations business, which is responsible for the company’s transportation, supply chain and other activities. That site will receive 5,000 jobs.

The winner in Greater Washington is an area now known as Crystal City, an urban location just across the Potomac River from D.C. that is largely controlled by a single owner, JBG Smith Properties (NYSE: JBGS).

Crystal City is located within Arlington County — home of the Pentagon and Reagan National Airport — and was one of a handful Greater Washington locations…</s>In 2017 Amazon.com announced it was seeking a second North American headquarters which, once built out, will employ up to 50,000 high tech workers. This set off a race among big cities eager to house the world's most valuable company and its well-paid employees.

The Seattle-based online retailer founded and run by billionaire Jeff Bezos, the world's richest man, said its "HQ2" would result in close to $5 billion in investment in the chosen city.

The company said it would prioritize metropolitan areas with more than one million people and that it was encouraging interested communities to think "big" and "creatively" about possible locations.

Amazon founded in Bellevue, Washington. Later that year the small company moves to an office in Seattle.

Amazon has an estimated 10,000 employees in Seattle.

Amazon announces it is searching for a second headquarters, one that will be co-equal to its Seattle home. It posts a Request for Proposal outlining what information it requires from cities that want to be considered.

At the time, Amazon was estimated to have about 40,000 employees in Seattle. The company occupied 19% of all prime office space in the city, according to an analysis by the Seattle Times.

Deadline for cities to submit their applications. In all, 238 proposals were received, from across the United States and Canada.

Shortlist of 20 finalists announced. The cities are:

Amazon teams visit all 20 cities/areas, a process that the company — and the cities — largely keep under wraps.

Speaking at the Economic Club of Washington D.C., Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said that the company will announce a decision before the end of the year.

After it became clear finding a city that could lure 50,000 highly-paid tech workers wasn't as easy as it had thought, Amazon pivots and instead decides to add two new headquarters instead of one. The two cities to be chosen aren't named, but Northern Virginia and New York City are at the top of most lists.

Multiple media reports claim Amazon has chosen New York City and Crystal City, Virginia, as the destinations for its next headquarters.

Last day for Amazon to announce its decision.</s>RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Amazon will split second headquarters between New York City and Virginia, according to a person familiar with the plans.</s>The company's headquarters expansion will be in Arlington County, Virginia and the Long Island City neighborhood of New York, and Nashville will get a 5,000 person satellite office.

Amazon on Tuesday made it official: The company’s headquarters expansion will be in Arlington County, Virginia, and the Long Island City neighborhood of New York.

The announcement ends a 14-month search for what Amazon had originally billed as a $5 billion second headquarters campus, which the retail and technology giant aimed to staff with 50,000 workers. At some point this fall, people familiar with Amazon’s site-selection process say, the company changed course, opting to split its so-called HQ2 among more than one city.

Amazon said Tuesday that it plans to staff each of the two cities with about 25,000 workers in about 4 million square feet of office space, with an option to double that square footage sometime in the future.

The company’s existing Seattle headquarters employs about 45,000 people spread over 10 million square feet of office space.

In selecting the nation’s capital and its largest city, Amazon picked two of the few metropolitan areas in the U.S. that boast more workers employed in science, technology, engineering and mathematics occupations than Seattle does. The two sites are similar, located on spokes of each city’s transit line, across the river from the central business district, and a short distance to airports — Reagan National in Virginia, and LaGuardia in New York.

Even before Tuesday’s announcement, the two areas were home to Amazon’s biggest satellite offices east of the Mississippi. Herndon, Virginia, is the East Coast headquarters of the Amazon Web Services cloud-computing division, part of a 2,500-person contingent in the area. New York is home to expanding teams focusing on advertising and book publishing, and earlier this year had some 1,800 Amazon employees.

Amazon didn’t say what, exactly, the employees hired to staff its new offices would be working on. Splitting corporate command and control functions among multiple headquarters would be an unusual move, and outside observers speculated that the company may, at some point, choose to locate specific business units in each city, or spur that change by relocating a top executive.

Amazon’s existing corporate structure does have three titular chief executives. Reporting to founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is Jeff Wilke, who runs Amazon’s retail and logistics business, and Andy Jassy, chief of Amazon Web Services.

The retailer added another twist in its Tuesday blog post announcing its selection: a 5,000-person satellite office in Nashville, Tenn. That outpost, the company said, will serve as an eastern hub for logistics work.

Tax breaks and other government incentives to support Amazon’s projects in the three cities total at least $2.4 billion, according to the figures Amazon broke out in its blog post.

Amazon called its D.C.-area expansion, located in the Crystal City neighborhood of Arlington County, Virginia, National Landing, a name that baffled area journalists.

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