Had Amazon decided to build its second headquarters at one of the four sites that D.C. offered the internet retailer, it would have gotten a perk that would make any developer jealous: one-day turnaround on building permits for what was expected to be a $5 billion construction project.

That’s one of the tidbits contained in a fully unredacted document released by the District on Monday detailing all the incentives — financial and otherwise — it put on the table to lure Amazon and its 50,000 planned HQ2 employees to the city.

After an open-records fight earlier this year, WAMU had reported on the broad outlines of the city’s incentive package: significant breaks on income, property and sales taxes, as well as tax credits for every employee hired, through an existing D.C. program targeting tech companies. What was kept secret, though, was the overall costs of those breaks. No longer: the unredacted document says the total value of those financial incentives was between $488 million and $1 billion through 2034.

The document also contains details on the other perks, some already known, most not:

• A workforce development center dubbed “Amazon University,” which would feature partnerships with local universities (including the University of the District of Columbia, Georgetown, and the George Washington University) to “create a customized education and training center for Amazon.”
• One-day permitting for all HQ2-related construction projects. “With this service,” reads the document, “design and construction can begin immediately, allowing Amazon to minimize its time to operations.” Amazon was expected to need as much as eight million square feet of office space.
• An “Amazon Ambassador” to ensure “seamless project approvals and reviews, and to shepherd any Amazon project throughout the government and the D.C. community. Government can be challenging to navigate — the Amazon Ambassador will know the ins and outs of government implicated by any of Amazon’s big ideas.”
• The documents committed D.C. to working with Amazon to “pilot and deploy autonomous vehicle shared transit solutions within the Amazon campus and beyond.” Although D.C. did not get HQ2, it is already working with Ford on a self-driving car pilot.
• In a direct response to concerns around what effect HQ2’s 50,000 well-paid employees could have on housing costs in an already expensive city, D.C. committed itself to doubling its spending on affordable housing through the Housing Production Trust Fund to $200 million a year. “Should Amazon choose to locate its HQ2 in the District, the Mayor would use extra revenue produced by HQ2 to increase affordable housing investment,” reads the document.

Since Amazon announced that it was splitting HQ2 between Crystal City, Virginia and Long Island City, New York, some of the 238 jurisdictions that put in bids for the campus have started releasing details on sites and incentives they offered. Late Friday, Montgomery County — one of the 20 finalists for HQ2 — released additional details on its proposed incentives to WAMU, which included waiving the one-year residency requirement for Amazon employees and their families to get in-state tuition at the University of Maryland.

Virginia’s total incentive package of roughly $1.4 billion — between $550 and $750 million in payments to Amazon depending on how many employees are hired, and hundreds of millions of dollars more in transportation and education projects — though that’s for the slimmed down HQ2, with 25,000 employees. Maryland’s full incentive package for the 50,000-employee HQ2 was valued at between $5 and $8.5 billion.

But Virginia did include other offerings to Amazon: a promise to give the company two days to object to the public disclosure of certain documents related to the deal, and help in getting through the tangle of permits and approvals needed to build a helipad at the new campus on Crystal City.