Crystal City, the site of Amazon’s new campus.

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Crystal City is hungry to expand its borders.

The Arlington neighborhood may soon include parts of Pentagon City and the entirety of Arlington’s Potomac Yard, if the Arlington County Board approves a plan proposed by the Crystal City Business Improvement District.

Do these three neighborhoods ring familiar? That’s because together the triad comprises “National Landing,” a name coined by development authorities in Alexandria and Arlington to lure Amazon to set up its second headquarters there, and bring 25,000 jobs with it. (The strategic plan from the BID released on Wednesday says that the moniker beat out catchy names like “Lower Arlington” and “Penn Crystal.” Meanwhile, the BID is cautious of changing its own name to National Landing without more conversation, because ” it is important that this name not supplant the existing names of the unique neighborhoods that are ingrained in and valued by the community.”)

The backers of the expansion plan swear that Amazon isn’t the only motivation to increase the BID’s geographic area by nearly 70 percent: Tracy Sayegh Gabriel, the president and executive director of the BID, said in a press release that the seeds of the expansion were planted back in 2013. But now, with the attention the tech behemoth is bringing to the area, “the neighborhoods of Crystal City, Pentagon City, and Potomac Yard are poised for a period of massive and sustained public and private sector investment,” said Gabriel.

While neighborhood boundaries and names are often contentious and rarely official, BIDs operate in geographically specific areas as public-private partnerships with goals of performing services beyond that of a local government. In this case, Glenda MacMullin, chair of the Crystal City BID, says that the enlarged version would “ensure that the billions of dollars in public and private investments are accomplished in a comprehensive and sustainable way.”

The BID claims that more than 80 percent of property owners in the expanded boundaries are in support of the change.

The newfangled Crystal City BID would include more than 12 million square feet of office space, more than 15,000 residential units, almost 5,900 hotel rooms, and about 475 retail storefronts and restaurants, per the release. The BID’s annual budget would increase from the current $2.7 million to $4.3 million.