‘Love Local’ launches to help National Landing businesses
National Landing Business Improvement District and the Restaurant Association Metropolitan Washington have launched a $100,000 joint relief initiative, Love Local, which will assist struggling restaurants and small businesses in Arlington‘s National Landing neighborhood with minimum $1,000 grants. “Restaurants and small businesses are the backbone of our community in National Landing �[...]
Co-working space opens in National Landing
A 39,000-square-foot Hana co-working space in National Landing — the stomping grounds of Amazon.com Inc.‘s new East Coast headquarters, HQ2 — has opened, the CBRE Group subsidiary announced Friday. The building, located at 2451 Crystal Drive in Arlington, includes private office suites, conference and event space and co-working space. This is Hana’s third co-working and […]
National Landing to see $4B in transportation investment during next decade
A report released by the National Landing Business Improvement District (BID) on Tuesday details $4 billion worth of area transportation projects that will be underway during the next decade. The National Landing area includes Arlington‘s Crystal City (where e-commerce giant Amazon.com Inc. is establishing its $2.5 billion East Coast HQ2 headquarters), Pentagon City and Potomac […]
Renovation of Amazon office building completed in Arlington
A newly renovated 14-story office building in National Landing is ready for Amazon.com Inc. employees to move in, developer JBG Smith announced Wednesday. The revamp of the 273,000-square-foot space at 1770 Crystal Drive, which is mostly leased by the e-tail giant, was finished two quarters early and under its $80 million proposed budget as outlined […]
National Landing BID makes hires, promotions
The National Landing Business Improvement District (BID) announced Wednesday a slate of new hires and promotions, including two newly created vice president positions. Ashley Forrester is the Arlington-based public-private partnership’s new vice president of marketing and communications, and Malaika Scriven is vice president of planning and development, posts recently created. Robert H. Mand[...]
Amazon to donate $9M to NoVa nonprofits
Marking the second anniversary of the news that it would brings its East Coast headquarters to Virginia, Amazon.com Inc. will donate $9 million to several nonprofits in Northern Virginia, the company announced Monday. The gifts include $3.5 million to community organizations supporting small businesses and military families and $3 million to nonprofit legal services groups […]