Amazon to increase Idaho presence with new Boise-area warehouse, hundreds of jobs John Sowell, The Idaho Statesman
May 5 Amazon announced Wednesday it will build a new delivery station in Meridian.
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The 140,000-square-foot building will be located at 2490 E. Franklin Road, just west of Eagle Road. When it opens early next year, it will provide hundreds of full-time and part-time jobs, Amazon spokesperson Anne Laughlin Carpita said in an email. Their investment in this facility is a commitment by the company to their local customers, and with job opportunities it s also a commitment to the future prosperity of our city, surrounding communities and to the state of Idaho, Meridian Mayor Robert Simison said in a press release.
Amazon to open new delivery station in Meridian
The new facility is slated to open early next year and will generate hundreds of new full-time and part-time jobs all paying at least $15 per hour. Author: KTVB Staff, Shirah Matsuzawa Published: 11:21 AM MDT May 5, 2021 Updated: 6:23 PM MDT May 5, 2021
MERIDIAN, Idaho Amazon is expanding its operations in Idaho.
The company announced Wednesday that it plans to open a new delivery station early next year at 2490 East Franklin Road in Meridian. That s just west of Eagle Road.
The new facility will be more than 140,000 square feet.
Amazon is expected to hire hundreds of new full-time and part-time associates. Starting pay is at least $15 per hour.
Amazon Buys Recology Site in SF for $200 Million, Scuttles Plan to Make it Housing
Recology just sold its 900 7th Street waste maintenance facility to Amazon, who plan to make it a six-acre distribution facility in San Francisco.
E-commerce giant and aspiring surveillance menace Amazon is considered more of a Seattle company than a Silicon Valley company, but does actually have a significant footprint in the Bay Area. The Chronicle reported last year that Amazon has “more high-paying Amazon jobs than anywhere besides Seattle,” with 7,000 office workers in SF, Palo Alto, and East Palo Alto, and god-knows-how-many delivery and warehouse workers. Amazon also owns SF-based streaming/gamer thingy Twitch, which has another 1,500 employees. Now Amazon hopes for an even bigger Bay Area presence, as the Chronicle reports this morning that Amazon has bought a six-acre Recology facility for $200 million, with hopes of turning what is currently a waste management facility into a delivery
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.
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.