Amazon.com Inc.’s second headquarters was conceived in one world and born into another. The e-commerce and cloud computing giant executed on its commitments at Pentagon City’s Metropolitan Park, HQ2’s first phase, but those commitments were all made pre-pandemic. Everything has changed.
HQ2’s second phase, meanwhile, is a sprawling unimproved lot stuck in post-pandemic purgatory, between “on hold indefinitely” and “all indications of kicking that off next year,” as my Washington…
