Four New Businesses Coming To Amazon's Met Park In Arlington

ARLINGTON, VA — Four local shops and restaurants are among the businesses that will be opening in 2023 when Metropolitan Park opens at Amazon’s HQ2 in Arlington.

The businesses — Conte's Bike Shop, HUSTLE fitness studio, South Block juice bar and Social Burger — will be opening in the Met Park area. Other businesses that are already scheduled to open in the area in 2023 are District Dogs and RAKO Coffee.

Amazon is hoping to create a food, dining, and retail district at Met Park, with an emphasis on supporting women-owned and minority-owned small businesses.

Met Park is the first phase of Amazon's second headquarters in Arlington. Beyond the office space that HQ2 will provide for the 25,000 employees, Amazon is aiming to bring retail establishments, restaurants, green spaces, parks, and walking and biking paths to the area.

"Our goal is to help create and foster a vibrant 18-hour district, one that our neighbors see as a destination where they can dine, shop, and relax," Amazon said in a blog post.

HUSTLE will be the first fitness studio to open in Met Park. Conte’s Bike Shop opened its first family-owned shop in Newport News in 1957. Conte's already has a bike shop in the Virginia Square area.

South Block, with a name inspired by its first location on the southside of a block in Clarendon, is a juice shop known for its açai bowls. It has expanded to 11 locations in Virginia, D.C. and Maryland.

Social Burger opened in Vienna in 2014. Met Park will be its second location.

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