Key story highlights:
* Amazon Web Services is buying more Loudoun land for data centers, this time in Sterling.
* The site is part of Waterside, a 5 million-square-foot planned development to be anchored by a 54-acre lake.
* Amazon.com Inc. is considering the same general area for its second headquarters.
Amazon Web Services is under contract to acquire a large wooded parcel in Sterling for a new data center, or campus of data centers, sources tell the Washington Business Journal.
The 107-acre vacant site is located on the north side of Route 606, just east of the interchange with Route 28. The so-called “Centennial Site” is part of Waterside, the 5 million-square-foot planned development covering some 335 acres — the majority of which, 225 acres, is located south of Route 606 on what is currently the active Loudoun Quarries.
The entire 335 acres is owned, for now, by Chantilly Crushed Stone Inc., a subsidiary of the Gudelsky Group.
