Looking back at HQ2: Those behind the deal talk about the grueling process — and payoff

You all have likely seen by now that Amazon.com Inc.’s HQ2 news led our roundup of top business stories of 2018. And now that the business leaders who helped bring that deal home, or who are most likely to benefit from it, can take a breath — well, we asked them to have a little fun with the year’s biggest headline.

After more than a year — 432 days by one count — in grueling limbo and a 379-page proposal to land HQ2, Arlington County and Alexandria scored various pieces of the coveted project,…