Delay affects three office towers, ‘Helix’ conference center

Move coincides with biggest job cuts ever, remote work reality

Amazon were leading on real estate from as recently as 2 years ago with new warehouses and office space around the world. They were even portrayed as taking up office blocks emptied during work from home.

The delay affects a larger phase across the street. It calls for three, 22-story office towers and the 350-foot-tall (107-meter) Helix, a corporate conference center and indoor garden designed to echo the Spheres, plant-filled orbs at the heart of the company’s Seattle headquarters. Arlington officials granted the 2.8-million-square-foot project, called PenPlace, its most important approval in April.