{"id":138546,"date":"2022-04-24T16:24:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T21:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/county-grants-approval-for-amazons-helix-shaped-hq-tower"},"modified":"2022-04-24T16:24:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T21:24:06","slug":"county-grants-approval-for-amazons-helix-shaped-hq-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/county-grants-approval-for-amazons-helix-shaped-hq-tower","title":{"rendered":"County grants approval for Amazon\u2019s helix-shaped HQ tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/county-grants-approval-for-amazons-helix-shaped-hq-tower3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) \u2014 The Arlington County Board gave unanimous approval Saturday to Amazon\u2019s plans to build a unique, helix-shaped tower as the centerpiece of its emerging second headquarters in northern Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon announced the plans in February 2021 for the eye-catching, 350-foot tower to anchor the second phase of its redevelopment plans. The new office towers will support a second headquarters for Amazon that is expected to welcome more than 25,000 workers when it\u2019s complete.<\/p>\n<p>The helix is one of several office towers granted approval, but the helix stands out. The spiral design features a walkable ramp wrapping around the building with trees and greenery planted to resemble a mountain hike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) \u2014 The Arlington County Board gave unanimous approval Saturday to Amazon\u2019s plans to build a unique, helix-shaped tower as the centerpiece of its emerging second headquarters in northern Virginia. Amazon announced the plans in February 2021 for the eye-catching, 350-foot tower to anchor the second phase of its redevelopment plans. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}