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Amazon employees will pay to park at HQ2. Plus, colorful new Met Park renderings.

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) employees who opt to drive to work — something the company has actively discouraged — will have to pay for parking in the HQ2 garage, a fee the company presented as a means of lowering congestion on Arlington streets and prodding employees to public transportation. The team developing the blueprint for the two HQ2 towers at Pentagon City's Metropolitan Park presented a few new details about how Amazon employees will get to work, and a little bit more about what the new buildings will look like, during a second Arlington site plan review committee meeting Monday. "As they do in Seattle, Amazon will charge for parking and provide a transit benefit to encourage alternative modes of transportation," said Dan VanPelt, principal at traffic engineering firm Gorove/Slade. Read More...

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) employees who opt to drive to work — something the company has actively discouraged — will have to pay for parking in the HQ2 garage, a fee the company presented as a means of lowering congestion on Arlington streets and prodding employees to public transportation. The team developing the blueprint for the two HQ2 towers at Pentagon City’s Metropolitan Park presented a few new details about how Amazon employees will get to work, and a little bit more about what the new buildings will look like, during a second Arlington site plan review committee meeting Monday. “As they do in Seattle, Amazon will charge for parking and provide a transit benefit to encourage alternative modes of transportation,” said Dan VanPelt, principal at traffic engineering firm Gorove/Slade.

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