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Trending:In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more.Amazon has revealed its proposed design for a second office tower as part of its Bellevue 600 project, further solidifying the look and feel of the tech giant’s expanding presence in Bellevue, Wash., where it aims to locate 25,000 employees.The second tower will be 31 stories tall and make up part of a 3.5-acre campus that will also include a 43-story tower, which is already under construction.600 Bellevue, in July 2019, stretches from 110th Avenue NE to 108th Avenue NE and the two buildings will have room for 7,000 Amazon employees, the company said in a Friday morning.Amazon announced in early March that it leased a 600,000-square-foot office building called&nbsp; in Bellevue. The company’s major growth plans in the city east of Seattle also include two million square feet of office space at new properties being developed by Vulcan: &nbsp;and&nbsp;“We want to contribute to the creation of a thriving downtown where people live, work, and visit — not just drive through,” Amazon said in its announcement.Here are more details for the Bellevue 600 project:With more than&nbsp;&nbsp;now in the region it calls home, Amazon has exhibited a strong desire to stretch further beyond the limits of Seattle, driven in part by disputes with the Seattle City Council over its impact on the community, and efforts by the city to impose new taxes on big businesses. In 2019, after a prior tax battle, the company&nbsp;., Amazon announced its plans to get its workers back to the office after letting people work from home for the past year.“Our plan is to return to an office-centric culture as our baseline. We believe it enables us to invent, collaborate, and learn together most effectively,” Amazon told employees in a memo.That mentality is in line with what about how “invention” is hard to do virtually compared to people brainstorming together in person.Subscribe to GeekWire's free newsletters to catch every headlineHave a scoop that you'd like GeekWire to cover? Let us know.Like what you're reading? Subscribe to GeekWire's free newsletters to catch every headlineMedBridgeResolution Bioscience, a part of AgilentMedBridgeUnited Way of King CountySan Jose State UniversityWestern Washington University - Computer Science DepartmentFind more jobs on . Employers, .

Trending:In-depth Amazon coverage from the tech giant’s hometown, including e-commerce, AWS, Amazon Prime, Alexa, logistics, devices, and more.Amazon has revealed its proposed design for a second office tower as part of its Bellevue 600 project, further solidifying the look and feel of the tech giant’s expanding presence in Bellevue, Wash., where it aims to locate 25,000 employees.The second tower will be 31 stories tall and make up part of a 3.5-acre campus that will also include a 43-story tower, which is already under construction.600 Bellevue, in July 2019, stretches from 110th Avenue...

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