Amazon's physical expansion continues to heat up, with the e-tailer giant announcing two more planned fulfillment centers over the past week. The company will be adding a facility in North Haven, CT, and another in Thornton, CO.
Announced June 8, the North Haven fulfillment center — located in the south-central part of Connecticut — will create more than 1,500 full-time jobs and will occupy 855,000-square feet. Amazon currently has Connecticut facilities in Wallingford and Windsor.
Amazon's new facility in Thornton, CO — a northern suburb of Denver — will also span 855,000-square feet and will be the company's second location in the state, and its first robotics facility. That location will also create more than 1,500 new fill-time jobs.
With those two fulfillment centers, Amazon has now announced plans for 13 new facilities so far in 2017. That includes the company's Air Hub planned at the Northern Kentucky Airport.
Here are the locations of the new planned facilities Amazon has previously announced so far in 2017, and the dates those announcements were made:
- June 12: 855,000 square foot fulfillment center in Thornton, CO
- June 8: 855,000 square foot fulfillment center in North Haven, CT
- June 7: 800,000 square foot fulfillment center in Miami, FL
- June 2: 855,000 square foot fulfillment center in Fresno, CA
- June 1: 850,000 square foot fulfillment center in Jefferson, GA
- March 28 and March 29: Fulfillment centers in Clear Brook, VA and Houston, TX — each 1 million square feet
- Feb. 9: Two California fulfillment centers in Eastville and Redlands, spanning 1.75 million square feet
- Jan. 31: Amazon Air Hub in Hebron, KY (Northern Kentucky Airport)
- Jan. 23: 1 million square-foot fulfillment center in Aurora, CO
- Jan. 17: 1.2 million-square-foot fulfillment center in North East, MD
- Jan. 4: 1 million-square-foot fulfillment center in Jacksonville, FL
On Jan. 12, Amazon announced its plans to create more than 100,000 jobs nationwide over the following 18 months.
