Virginia's Arlington County will pay Amazon more than $81,000 this month, officials said, giving the company its first cut of taxpayer subsidies for the headquarters the tech giant is building in the Northern Virginia suburb.

The deal to bring the HQ2 project to Arlington, announced in 2018, promised an economic transformation that would recast a largely underutilized area near the Pentagon and across the river from downtown Washington, D.C.

In exchange for hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, the company promised to gradually add 25,000 high-paying tech jobs at its new offices by the end of the decade.

Seven years later, the company has filled less than a third of those positions. Two soaring office towers have been erected in the Crystal City neighborhood, but the co

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