(Updated at 4:25 p.m.) Fueled by its signature açai bowls, local juice bar South Block is hitting a growth spurt. The smoothie, juice and açai bowl spot opened its newest location in Amazon's HQ2 in July, marking its 15th storefront in the D.C. area and fifth in Arlington in the last 12 years. Its founder,
Pressed juice and smoothie chain South Block, one of a dozen D.C.-area businesses chosen by Amazon for its retail space at its new HQ2 campus in Pentagon City, opened the location over the weekend.
We're getting our first official look into the mostly completed first phase of Amazon's HQ2 in Pentagon City. Amazon shared photos this morning from inside the two-building, 2.1 million square foot office complex, located along S. Eads Street between 12th and 15th streets. The photos are notable for what they don't show: rows of cubicles
Home-grown South Block, which started as a juice bar on the George Washington University campus, called Campus Fresh, in 2006, has opened its 14th location in…