Amazon's Delivery Center Development in SF Moves Forward After Years of Delays
Finally, after years of sitting on the acquiring land, Amazon is proceeding with its planned 710,000 square foot delivery facility in San Francisco, which hopes to improve the quality of service in the area.
The San Francisco Planning Department issued a notice in January that it was preparing to start an environmental review of the project that will sit on six acres of land, the San Francisco Business Times reports. The local agency plans to conduct a meeting and gather community feedback about the project on February 12.
For years, more regulatory scrutiny on parcel delivery centers by the Board of Supervisors has caused delays, with Amazon first buying the site from Recology for $202 million in December 2020, according to the Business Journal.
Part of the planned project in Showplace Square includes a three-story industrial building, featuring 3,600 square feet of commercial space, 17,700 square feet of office and 510 rooftop parking spots. Plus, the development would create 13,700 square feet of public space.
"This delivery station will help us provide better service and faster delivery to customers in San Francisco while reducing delivery mileage, since many packages are currently dispatched from outside the city," spokesperson Natalie Banke said in an emailed statement.
As the project moves forward, Amazon has been making moves in the retail space. For one, it will be saying goodbye to all of its Amazon Go and Amazon Fresh locations and will instead shift to expanding its Whole Foods stores and focus on online grocery delivery. Yet, the e-commerce giant is experimenting with something different: a 229,000 square feet store in Orland Park, Illinois. The massive location brings competition to Walmart's Supercenters.
Source: GlobeSt/ALM