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The debate in front of a Hamburg Industrial Development Agency public hearing dragged on for hours and the agency will meet next week for a possible decision. The $47 million warehouse would have around a hundred full and part-time Amazon workers supplying hundreds of independent truck driver contractors who will deliver that last mile.
Executive Director Sean Doyle says there is a price from the taxpayers. Any amount not to exceed $6,848,345. This assistance contemplated by the agency will include mortgage tax abatements, sales tax exemption on the materials and/or equipment purchased for installation into the property and real property abatements, tax abatements, Doyle said.
Amazon is asking for $6 million in tax incentives for a proposed $47 million facility in Hamburg. Author: Leanne Stuck Updated: 5:28 AM EST February 11, 2021
HAMBURG, N.Y. Amazon is proposing to bring a $47 million warehouse and distribution facility to Hamburg.
The new facility would be located on 62 acres at the Lake Erie Commerce Center at the intersections of Lake Shore and Bayview roads.
Town of Hamburg Supervisor Jim Shaw said the industrial zoned land is ideal for the project.
Shaw said it would also create 100 jobs and up to 300 construction jobs.
In its proposal, Amazon is asking for approximately $6 million in tax breaks from the Hamburg Industrial Development Agency.
Amazon is setting its sights on Western New York expansion once again, this time in Hamburg.
The multinational tech and internet retailer based in Seattle, Washington is expected to invest over 47 million dollars into building a warehouse distribution center along Route 5 and Bayview Road on what is currently unused land.
Town Supervisor Jim Shaw is hopeful this Amazon project, while smaller, is a better fit for his community than the now scrapped-one in Grand Island.
“Those who want to maintain the status quo will raise I m sure some arguments, but I think the location for this distribution center is ideally situated,” Shaw said. “I think there are sufficient buffers to isolate it from residential communities. It is on a main thoroughfare, Route 5 Lakeshore Road. It is about, I d say a mile from the 179 Interchange to the thruway. So I think it is well positioned.”