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Amazon HQ2 surpasses 400 employees. Here’s how it will grow in 2020 and beyond.

Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) said its second headquarters has reached and surpassed its first-year hiring goal, according to a year-in-review post published Friday on the company’s Day One blog.

“We have more than 400 employees working from our leased office space on Crystal Drive, 18th Street S and South Bell Street in Arlington,” the unsigned post reads.

The update focuses on the “key highlights” to emerge from Amazon’s second home experiment during 2019, but it doesn’t touch on some of its challenges, like the resistance that led to the company to nix its New York City plans or the disputes over working conditions at Amazon’s initial Crystal City office space.

The post does commit that Amazon’s workforce will be a force for good in Greater Washington, and it notes that members of the new workforce have already participated in, and assisted, with local events, like the Arlington Turkey Trot, the Marine Corps Marathon, and a World Series watch party for Arlington residents.

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Sonic Drive-In to open its first restaurant in Northern Virginia’s I-95 corridor

Fast-food chain Sonic Drive-In has filed plans to build a new restaurant in Prince William County, its first outpost along the Interstate 95 corridor in Northern Virginia. The 1,400-square-foot restaurant, with two drive-thru lanes, 12 pull-up ordering stalls and a dining patio, will be located at 4115 Talon Drive in Dumfries, part of the Barracks Row at Quantico commercial development less than a mile northwest of the I-95 interchange at state Route 234. The location “will constitute a flagship Sonic design that will serve as a benchmark for future restaurant drive-thru development,” according to a written narrative accompanying the application, filed by Noah Klein of Venable LLP.
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