National Landing

Arlington County

City of Alexandria

National Landing

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Washington, D.C.

National Landing is in Northern Virginia (shown in yellow), near Washington, D.C. (pink) and Maryland (gray).

National Landing is an area in Northern Virginia encompassing parts of the Crystal City and Pentagon City neighborhoods of Arlington County and the Potomac Yard neighborhood in the city of Alexandria. It is the location of the Amazon HQ2 headquarters.^[1]

In 2018, the neighborhood was branded and announced as "National Landing" as part of a local economic development plans to bring Amazon HQ2 to the area.^[2]^[3] The announcement also included plans to build a graduate-school satellite university campus of Virginia Tech in the area.^[4] The "National Landing" name derives, in part, from the area's proximity to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.^[3]

^ Strupp, Julie. "Forget Crystal City, Amazon is coming to 'National Landing'". ggwash.org. Retrieved November 13, 2018. National Landing will be the newly defined interconnected and walkable neighborhood that encompasses Crystal City, the eastern portion of Pentagon City and the northern portion of Potomac Yard.
^ Vincent, Brandi (November 13, 2018). "Amazon introduces 'National Landing' headquarters to confused Washington-area residents". Retrieved November 13, 2018. National Landing was not an invention of Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, but was instead dreamed up by local economic development officials, who created it as part of their attempt to lure the e-commerce giant.
^ ^a ^b Korff, Jay (November 13, 2018). "Duo delivers Amazon's HQ2 and 'National Landing' moniker to Crystal City". Retrieved November 14, 2018. To create a cohesive brand that Amazon would buy, Landrum and Winn renamed this space "National Landing" since the Nation's Capital and Reagan National Airport are so close.
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