Amazon's Top Office Picks Offer Blank Slates for Urban Revivals
- Yearlong search led tech giant to outskirts of NYC, Washington
- Long Island City, Crystal City see Amazon as growth catalyst
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Emerging from the Crystal City Metro station in Arlington, Virginia, the state of the local property market is etched in bold colors on tarps draped over vacant office towers.
The vivid shapes, a contrast to the neighborhood’s bureaucratic ’60s architecture, are a signal flare to future tenants sent up by the buildings’ owner. Locals assume the colorful banners are aimed at catching the attention of Amazon.com Inc., on a yearlong, nationwide quest for a second headquarters. And they may have worked.