Perseus-TDC planned to seek permission from local and federal authorities to build a headquarters tower stretching up to 500 feet for Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) at the foot of a new Eisenhower Avenue Metro station entrance, if that's what it took to bring the Seattle-based company's new headquarters to Alexandria.
The e-commerce and cloud computing company would have anchored the development of more than 10 million square feet of office space and about 3,000 multifamily units spread over multiple…