Amazon wants to protect HQ2. It may use the adjacent public park to do it.

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is weighing methods for securing its second headquarters and appears to be looking across the pond for ideas. The U.S. embassy in London, described by its architect as among the safest buildings in Britain, avoids fences in favor of a number of "defense strategies" disguised as a "welcoming landscape that is experienced as a public park," an Amazon representative told Arlington County officials in documents obtained by the Washington Business Journal through the Freedom of Information Act. "Its concrete barriers are disguised as natural landscaping, its anti-truck bollards as hedges, and its 'moat' as an ornamental pond that separates the public from the building," read an Aug. 1 email from Florence Chung, Amazon Corporate Security's lead on public-private partnerships. Read More...