Jordan Schmitt | Tribune-Review
Churchill residents protested a potential Amazon distribution center in their residential neighborhood before a recent borough council meeting.
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Churchill’s Planning Commission unanimously voted to recommend approval of a conditional use application for a potential Amazon distribution center in Churchill on Wednesday.
Their recommendation is non-binding, but will be considered when Churchill Borough Council renders a final decision in the coming months.
Texas-based Hillwood Development submitted the conditional use application, proposing to construct a 2.6-million-square foot distribution and logistics facility for Amazon at the former site of the George Westinghouse Research Park near the Parkway.
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Stretching several football fields long, it is now the largest building in Allegheny County.
As part of an extensive distribution network, the online retail giant would like to build a similar facility on the abandoned 133-acre Westinghouse Research Complex off the Parkway East in Churchill. But some in the borough say the facility has no place in a residential community.
“There is no neighborhood in any part of this country that I can think that would say bring on Amazon and put it in the middle of our houses, our neighborhood, our streets, our kids. You don’t do that,” said Kate Carrigan Hill of Churchill