{"id":550605,"date":"2026-03-21T06:14:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550605\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T06:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:14:34","slug":"amazon-taking-down-part-of-new-warehouse-being-built-in-barrhaven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550605\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon taking down part of new warehouse being built in Barrhaven"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon is taking down part of its massive new distribution facility that is now under construction in Barrhaven. The e-commerce giant is currently building a five-storey, 3.1-million-square-foot warehouse at a 75-acre site on Bill Leathem Drive, about a kilometre southeast of the intersection of Woodroffe Avenue and Fallowfield Road. It will be Amazon\u2019s third distribution [\u2026]<\/p>\n

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Amazon is taking down part of its massive new distribution facility that is now under construction in Barrhaven.<\/p>\n

The e-commerce giant is currently building a five-storey, 3.1-million-square-foot warehouse at a 75-acre site on Bill Leathem Drive, about a kilometre southeast of the intersection of Woodroffe Avenue and Fallowfield Road.<\/p>\n

It will be Amazon\u2019s third distribution centre in the National Capital Region. The company already operates a 2.8-million-square-foot warehouse farther west in Barrhaven at 222 Citigate Dr. that opened in 2021 and a one-million-square-foot distribution facility that opened on Boundary Road in the city\u2019s south end in 2019.<\/p>\n

In an email to OBJ on Friday, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed the company \u201chas begun to disassemble portions\u201d of the new structure, adding it intends to rebuild it \u201cin a manner that ensures that the building\u2019s design meets future requirements.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAmazon constantly explores opportunities to optimize our designs in order for our facilities to better serve customers,\u201d the company added.<\/p>\n

While Amazon leases its other two warehouses in the region, it will own the new facility in Barrhaven. The new distribution centre is being built by Broccolini, which also constructed Amazon\u2019s other two warehouses in the Ottawa area.<\/p>\n

Broccolini did not respond to requests for comment from OBJ on Friday.<\/p>\n

In a development application filed in the fall of 2024<\/a>, Broccolini said it planned to build the new mega-warehouse \u2013 which will be Ottawa\u2019s largest industrial building \u2013 in a single phase and was aiming to complete the project in 2026.<\/p>\n

The new facility will boost Amazon\u2019s total footprint in Ottawa to 6.9 million square feet of warehouse space.<\/p>\n

The online retail giant is one of a growing number of companies that have set up warehouses in Ottawa in recent years to take advantage of the National Capital Region\u2019s strategic location between Toronto and Montreal and its easy access to major transportation routes such as Highways 416 and 417.<\/p>\n

In a 2024 interview with OBJ, Barrhaven East Coun. Wilson Lo said that while he supported the new warehouse project, he had some concerns about the volume of traffic it would generate and its effect on nearby transportation infrastructure.<\/p>\n

Lo said he hoped the development would be a catalyst for new funding to widen major traffic arteries such as Prince of Wales Drive and Fallowfield Road.<\/p>\n

Lo\u2019s office did not immediately reply to an email from OBJ on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon is taking down part of its massive new distribution facility that is now under construction in Barrhaven.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-550605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}