Virginia legislators are working to scrub a Confederate leader’s name from the highway where Jeff Bezos, who is already upgrading his $23 million Washington, D.C., mansion, plans to spend billions on its new suburban headquarters.

On Tuesday, Amazon picked Arlington’s Crystal City as one of its two new HQ2 locations, with space for a purported 25,000 employees. The site is labeled “National Landing” in recruiting material from Northern Virginia governments, on the Arlington, Virginia, government’s website, in Amazon’s press release, and in the pages of the Bezos-owned Washington Post.

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