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From YouTube: County Board Wrap-Up: Amazon HQ2 - Metropolitan Park
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Arlington County Board approved the redevelopment of more than six acres of Metropolitan Park, in Pentagon City, the first phase of Amazon’s headquarters in Arlington
A
Now
on
the
boards
last
meeting
of
2019
was
a
meeting
meaty
one
we're
gonna
to
start
today
went
to
look
at
three
items
that
give
us
some
insight
into
what
Amazon's
planned
headquarters
means
here
in
Arlington.
So
let's
dive
right
in
it
was
quite
the
action-packed
meeting
this
month.
So,
let's
start
with
the
met
Park
redevelopment,
which
is
kind
of
the
crux
of
the
whole
thing.
So
let's
dive
right
in
and
tell
us
what
happened
well,.
B
You
know
in
in
the
big
picture
sense:
this
is
a
really
transformative
project
for
Arlington
we're
gonna
have
with
Amazon's
new
headquarters,
220
two-story
office
towers
that
are
going
to
be
the
most
energy
efficient
buildings
that
Arlington
has
ever
produced.
They're
gonna
go
at
the
highest
level
of
the
certification
for
sustainability,
LEED
Platinum
they're
going
to
be
doing,
combination,
on-site
energy
and
they
have
a
goal
of
making
sure
that
they're
using
100%
renewable
energy
at
the
site
by
2030,
which
is
even
more
ambitious
than
our
community
energy
plan.
B
There
is
about
14
million
dollars,
that's
going
to
go
into
expanding
and
outfitting
a
public
open
space.
That's
also
going
to
be
perpetually
maintained
by
Amazon.
There's
gonna
be
an
odd
site.
Child
care
center,
there's
going
to
be
a
community
center,
that's
going
to
be
available
for
both
county
government
as
well
as
County,
nonprofit
and
civic
group.
Use.
There's
also
gonna
be
a
20
million
dollar
contribution
for
affordable
housing.
That's
twelve
and
a
half
million
dollars
above
the
base
expected
contribution.
B
So
there's
a
lot
of
great
things
going
on
here,
not
to
mention
improvements
to
the
street
network,
with
protected
bike
lanes
and
and
linear
parks.
Very
much
the
built
environment
is
going
to
be
a
good
thing,
and
then
you
know
what
I'm
excited
about
met
park
was
planned
more
recently
to
be
entirely
residential.
Now,
by
putting
these
office
uses
here,
I
actually
think
it's
a
better
land
use
mix
and
it's
gonna.
B
You
know
allow
this
to
be
a
much
more
dynamic
area
in
Pentagon
City,
and
it
was
a
something
that
you
don't
get
often
in
Arlington,
where
people
didn't
really
have
many
issues,
no
concerns
about
the
architecture
and
generally,
when
it
comes
to
the
land
use
part
of
it,
it
was
a
very
smooth
and
there
I
say
easy
public
hearing.
What.
C
One
of
the
things
I
think
is
really
exciting
about
this
project
is
that
it
represents
the
realization
of
a
lot
of
community
plans,
of
course,
being
in
Pentagon.
City
is
outside
of
the
Crystal
City
sector
plan
boundaries,
but
when
you
look
at
the
realization
of
the
Metropolitan
Park
as
Christiane
talked
about
the
actual
physical
park
or
the
achievement
of
things
like
the
extensive
contribution
to
our
network
of
protected
bike
lanes
or
even
the
energy
efficiency
standards
and
and
in
fact,
net
zero
goal
of
this
building.
C
That
represents
the
fruition
of
a
lot
of
different
plans
in
Arlington
County.
The
public
spaces
master
plan,
for
example,
the
bike
element
of
our
transportation
master
plan.
Certainly
this
amazing
down
payment
by
our
public's
a
private
sector
on
the
goals
of
the
community
energy
plan
and
so
I
think
what
you're
really
seeing
is
visions
and
values
that
this
community
has
had
that
we
have
codified
in
elements
of
our
comp
plan
or
planning
processes
now
being
realized
with
this
major
private
investment.
Let's.
A
B
The
biggest
contribution
we've
ever
had
for
affordable
housing
in
Arlington-
and
you
know
we
have
you-
know
our
system
of
community
benefits
that
we
negotiate
with
developers.
There's
a
base
expectation
that
they
are
expected
to
meet,
and
that
would
have
in
this
case
amounted
to
about
seven
and
a
half
million
dollars.
So
you
do
the
math
and
we're
getting
more
than
double
what
would
be
expected,
which
is
significant.
It
is
you
know,
just
it's
never
happened.
B
So
you
know
the
idea
that
we
have
so
so
much
coming
in
the
form
of
resources
to
provide
for
affordable
housing
is
incredibly
useful
and
you
know
better
yet
the
way
it's
structured,
it
will
come
in
tranches
as
the
building
is
developed
or
if
we
identify
an
opportunity
to
commit
those
to
a
single
project
in
the
vicinity,
we
can
get
the
twenty
million
dollars
in
one
lump
sum
right
away.
So
this
gives
us
a
degree
of
flexibility
and
opportunity
that
we've
never
had
before
and.
C
It's
worth
reminding
ourselves
every
opportunity
we
get
the
way
our
affordable
housing
investment
fund
works
is
we
tend
to
see
every
dollar
of
that
local
investment
leveraged
by
about
four
to
one
through
federal,
low-income
housing,
tax
credits,
other
sources
from
the
capital
market
that
nonprofit
developers
can
access
so
I?
Think
it's
fair
to
say
every
project
is
idiosyncratic
and
has
different
costs
associated
with
it.
C
B
C
A
B
You
know,
there's
there's
no
sort
of
boundary
requirement
for
it,
but
what
we
to
be
consistent
with
the
way
we've
described
our
efforts
at
affordable
housing
all
throughout
the
recruitment
of
of
Amazon,
has
been
of
the
two
to
202
zip
code,
which
includes
Crystal,
City
and
Pentagon
City
and
in
adjacent
neighborhoods,
but
also
to
tu-204
the
Columbia
Pike
corridor.
We
have
looked
at
all
of
those
as
being
areas
that
are
likely
to
be
impacted
by
growth,
that's
occurring
in
Pentagon,
City
and
Crystal
City.
B
A
C
In
the
county
rather
nearby
to
this
site,
but
I
don't
know
that
we've
seen
any
preliminary
thinking
about
the
architecture,
for
example,
but
again
in
the
same
way
that
the
the
benefits,
in
particular,
realized
out
of
this
project
represented
the
fruition
of
our
long-standing
community
plans
and
objectives.
I
think
you
can
expect
to
see
very
much
the
same
in
future
phases.
C
We've
planned
our
work
and
we're
working
our
plan
here
at
Arlington
County
in
terms
of
what
we're
hoping
to
realize
in
the
two
to
202
area,
and
so
one
thing
that
I
think
people
can
hang
their
hat
on.
Is
it
the
future
planning
process
for
future
sites?
Are
gonna
emphasize
those
long-standing
plans
and
community
goals
as
well,
and.
B
If
Amazon
pursues
their
plans,
they're
roughly
this
accounts
for
about
half
of
what
they
are
planning
if
they
adhere
to
the
25,000
employee
target
trajectory
that
has
been
the
subject
of
our
conversation,
so
about
2.1
million
square
feet
here,
which
leaves
roughly
about
that
much
for
the
other
site
that
they've
identified.
So
we
can
roughly
presume
that
we're
about
halfway
there
in
terms
of
what
Amazon
is
planning
in
Arlington.