by jtadmin | Jan 4, 2021 | Articles, Life in the DMV
Amazon is moving into its fifth office building in Arlington County. JBG Smith has completed a top-to-bottom renovation of 1770 Crystal Drive as part of Amazon’s HQ2 office space. The building’s entire 259,000-square-foot office portion of the 14-story building is...
by jtadmin | Dec 30, 2020 | Articles, Life in the DMV, Technology
While Opportunity Zones (OZs) were created to incentivize development in economically-distressed areas, the program is also going toward benefiting a loftier endeavor: the space race. Multi-billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk both have pet projects to offer the...
by jtadmin | Dec 7, 2020 | Articles, Life in the DMV
To support Amazon’s community initiatives and their commitment to operating a sustainable business, they identified an opportunity to adjust their logistics network to automatically donate eligible overstock and returned products from Amazon.com, instead of sending...
by jtadmin | Nov 23, 2020 | Press
Photo by The Center for Fiction, a 2020 Amazon Literary Partnership Grant winner, featuring Emerging Writer fellow, Sidik Fofana, at a Center for Fiction reading for emerging writers Since 2009, the Amazon Literary Partnership has supported hundreds of literary...
by jtadmin | Nov 16, 2020 | Life in the DMV
Amazon, with four large distribution facilities in Maryland, has opened two state-of-the-art delivery stations, smaller sorting facilities that get packages delivered to the last mile, often using independent drivers. Amazon says the two delivery stations, in Lanham...