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As it reviews Boston’s proposal for its second headquarters location, Amazon is already scouting additional office locations in the city for its largest-ever expansion of its local workforce.
The online commerce giant is exploring options for adding 500,000 to 1 million square feet of office space in the city, with potential interest in the Seaport District, according to a Boston Business Journal report.
Amazon established its first local offices at 101 Main St. in Cambridge in 2012 and steadily expanded into more than 170,000 square feet in the Kendall Square location.
It opened its first Boston offices last winter at WeWork’s St. James Avenue location in Back Bay and later leased 150,000 square at Synergy Investments’ 253 Summer St. in Fort Point for occupancy in 2018.
The city of Boston’s response to Amazon’s second headquarters request for proposals spotlights the 161-acre Suffolk Downs racetrack property on the East Boston/Revere line as the premiere local site for Amazon’s 8-million-square-foot second headquarters. But it also mentions a variety of options for existing and approved future office buildings in the Seaport, which could satisfy Amazon’s shorter-term demand.
Newton-based WS Development is seeking to increase future office development from 1.2 million to 2.9 million square feet on its 12.5 acres of Seaport District property and plans to break ground next year on the first office building at the Our Lady of Good Voyage chapel site on Seaport Boulevard.
Related Beal and Kavanagh Advisory Group are promoting a build-to-suit office and lab building at their 360,000-square-foot Innovation Square development site on Tide Street, and Skanska has approvals to build 212,000 square feet of office space at 2 Drydock Ave.
Amazon’s requirement also could serve as an anchor tenant jump-starting construction of office towers at South Station, HYM Investment Group’s Bulfinch Crossing and Millennium Partners’ Winthrop Square garage redevelopment.
Amazon leased 8.5 million square feet of office space in North America and owned another 3.7 million square feet as of Dec. 31.
