The Latest On Amazon's Continuous Fulfillment Center Expansion

ID contributing editor Jack Keough provides a roundup of recent news on Amazon's planned fulfillment center expansion.

Amazon is continuing to expand its ever growing number of fulfillment centers.

The Baltimore Business Journal says that the giant e-commerce retailer will build a 1.15 million square-foot fulfillment center in Cecil County, creating several hundred jobs over the next three years. It will be Amazonโ€™s second warehouse to be located in the state of Maryland.

Its first Baltimore warehouse, a 1-million-square-foot fulfillment center, is located at the site of a former GM plant on Broening Highway. The facility opened last spring. The announcement is to be made this week.

In Michigan, Amazon will build a $90 million distribution warehouse in Livonia. The new fulfillment center, which will be located on the site of a closed General Motors chassis plant, is expected to open in October.

The Michigan Strategic Fund recently approved a $7.5-million grant for the company, which said in documents it could create up to 1,500 jobs during its busy seasons at the regional fulfillment center, news reports said.

Only a few months ago, Amazon said it would build two facilities in Illinois, and another in Jacksonville, FL, where they opened a center just two years ago, and another in Las Vegas. In addition, last summer Amazon said it would build a eighth fulfillment center in Texas.

Amazon said Jan. 12 that it will add 100,000 jobs, mostly in fulfillment enters by 2018. That would bring Amazonโ€™s employment total to more than 280,000.

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