{"id":108595,"date":"2026-01-22T14:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/108595\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T14:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T14:52:07","slug":"amazon-begins-building-huge-new-warehouse-in-upstate-ny-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/108595\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon begins building huge new warehouse in Upstate NY (report)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon has begun building a huge new warehouse in Upstate New York, according to a new report.<\/p>\n

The retail giant started construction on what will be a 3.2 million square-foot distribution center in the Capital Region, according to the Albany Business Review<\/a>. The $621 million facility will be located near Exit 27 off the New York State Thruway in the Montgomery County town of Florida.<\/p>\n

According to the Business Review, the online retailer paid $13.5 million for 143 acres of land. Amazon will receive tax exemptions worth $30 million and an estimated $44.9 million in real property tax exemptions over 15 years, the Montgomery County Industrial Development Agency told the publication.<\/p>\n

Construction began in late December and will be completed in late 2027 or early 2028, the IDA said. Nearly 400 construction workers will be employed during the project.<\/p>\n

According to previous reports<\/a>, the warehouse is expected to be 4.5 stories tall and employ at least 750 people over three shifts a day. Amazon would also hire hundreds more part-time and seasonal workers, according to the Business Review.<\/p>\n

The facility is expected to use robotic storage systems instead of traditional warehouse racking. Orders would be picked, packed and shipped 24 hours, seven days a week to local delivery centers.<\/p>\n

Amazon operates a similar facility in the town of Clay<\/a> that totals five stories and 3.8 million square feet. The Syracuse-area warehouse opened in 2022 and also uses robotics in combination with human workers.<\/p>\n

The new Amazon warehouse will be just outside of Amsterdam, about 35 miles from Albany. It will be on Route 5S, near a 1.9 million-square-foot Target distribution center, less than 2 miles from the NYS Thruway\u2019s Amsterdam exit.<\/p>\n

Available jobs will be posted on Amazon.com<\/a> closer to the opening date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Amazon has begun building a huge new warehouse in Upstate New York, according to a new report. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108596,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[586,13226,14431,3342,48888,16965,48889,48890,36434,23100,5865,48891,48892,48893,48894,6861,9,11,10,49,51,50,48895,48896,46007,30273,24839,21836,48897,48898,48899],"class_list":["post-108595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-amazon","tag-automation","tag-customer-service","tag-delivery","tag-deutschland","tag-distribution","tag-dortmund","tag-fulfillment-center","tag-global","tag-goods","tag-infrastructure","tag-inventory","tag-logistic-center","tag-logistics-center","tag-logistics-management","tag-marketplace","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-november-19","tag-nur-photo","tag-nurphoto","tag-operations","tag-packages","tag-storage","tag-supply-network","tag-ying-tang","tag-yingphotographyy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}