Amazon spends $200 million for S.F. site once slated for housing
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Amazon plans to build a delivery station at a site on Seventh Street in S.F. near the Caltrain tracks.Carlos Avila Gonzalez / The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less
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Seattle e-commerce giant Amazon paid $200 million to buy a San Francisco site where it plans to build a new delivery station, expanding its massive shipping infrastructure in an urban center. The property’s former owner had envisioned offices and housing on the site a few blocks from the city’s Caltrain station.
The project could draw opposition simply for the identity of its new owner, the $1.6 trillion behemoth whose interests stretch from Hollywood productions to Silicon Valley gadgets to organic produce. It also shows continuing tensions over land use in the dense city: Under one recent proposal, 1,000 homes could have been built on the site.