The world’s largest online retailer is now seeking to grow its footprint in the Lone Star State. Amazon has set plans to build a nearly $50 million fulfillment center in Georgetown, a small city north of Austin.
“Our team is in the early stages of bringing a new operations facility to Georgetown — one that would provide local customers with faster delivery of everyday essentials while creating new jobs in the community,” Amazon spokesperson Austin Stowe told MySA in a statement. “We’re working with local officials on this project and look forward to sharing more details as plans develop.”
Seattle-based Amazon.com Services LLC is now listed as the owner of its latest $48 million Georgetown project called “SUS3 SSD Facility” in the TDLR. Construction on the facility is expected to begin on August 24 and is slated to be completed by the end of next July in 2027.
The scope of work for the project includes building a new 248,687-square-foot sorting warehouse equipped with a robotics sorting/storage area, specialty storage, cold storage, and incidental office and support areas.
This appears to be work for a new Amazon fulfillment center which are massive and often robotic warehouses where individual customer orders are picked, packed, and labeled for final shipment. Whereas Amazon distribution centers handle massive quantities of goods in bulk by sorting items and quickly moving them to smaller fulfillment spots closer to the customer, rather than packing individual orders.