Amazon is close to completing agreements to split its second headquarters between Crystal City in northern Virginia and the Queens borough of New York City, the New York Times reported on Monday.
A total of 50,000 employees would be split between the two locations, the newspaper reported, citing people it didn’t identify. The e-commerce giant already has more employees in the two locations than any other outside Seattle, where it’s based, the Times said.
Amazon didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday evening. A spokeswoman for Arlington County, whose southeast corner is home to Crystal City, declined to comment.
Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos included northern Virginia, Washington, D.C., and Montgomery County, Md., in a list of the top 20 potential sites Amazon was considering in January. The company said at the time that it expected to invest as much as $5 billion. Construction and operation of the site would bring thousands of additional jobs and tens of billions of dollars in related investment, Amazon estimated.
Bezos, criticized frequently by President Trump, has already invested heavily in the Washington, D.C., region, purchasing the Washington Post from the Graham family in 2013 and the city’s largest residence for $23 million three years later.
