The facility will be what Amazon calls a sortable fulfillment center, considered a “first mile” facility, where goods are transported in bulk to middle-mile and last-mile locations for final deliveries to customers.
Employees at those warehouses work alongside robots to pick, pack and shop customer orders for items like books, toys and housewares.
The company is also pressing ahead with a 4.1 million-square-foot, five-story facility under construction in Ontario, Calif., and a 3.9 million-square-foot, five-story project in Loveland, Colo.
At the same time, Amazon is expected to open some 250 more facilities in 2022, according to MWPVL. Those facilities would add to Amazon’s logistics network at each stage of the order fulfillment process as the company works to get packages onto customers’ doorsteps.
