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Amazon fulfillment center on Waterbury-Naugatuck line marks progress, promises 1,000 jobs by 2027
Bernardin joined dozens of state and local officials Tuesday to mark progress on the 3.2-million-square-foot robotics fulfillment center, a massive project expected to open in 2027. Gov. Ned Lamont was among those attending the event celebrating the project's groundbreaking.
Amazon, one of the world’s biggest companies, appears to be moving forward with plans to build a distribution center on Kaua‘i that stands to bring economic benefits, such as jobs, along with economic tolls, such as stiffer competition for local merchants, while speeding up package deliveries to local neighborhoods.
A lease in Bolingbrook and plans for a massive new facility in Wilmington signal the e-commerce giant is regaining its appetite for industrial space.
Graycor has completed a 171,000-square-foot distribution center for Amazon at 2675 Aeroplex Drive in Elkhart. The facility, dubbed DII5, will be Amazon’s first owner-occupied mass timber delivery station,
The state of New Jersey sued Amazon.com on Wednesday, accusing the company of unlawfully refusing workplace accommodations to warehouse employees who have disabilities or were pregnant and firing some who asked for them.
Amazon is expanding in the Alamo City with the purchase of a warehouse located on the East Side, a company spokesperson confirmed to KSAT.
State attorneys said Amazon retaliated against pregnant workers and those with disabilities after they filed requests for accommodation.
With a crew of more than 200 construdction workers, Amazon is turning most of a 157-acre property on the Naugatuck-Waterbury line into what will be one of its biggest distribution centers in the